Clarion 1969-10-31 Vol 45 No 09

Vol. XLV—No. 9
Bethel College, St. Paul Minn. Friday, October 31, 1969
Black, white college administrators
study finances, admissions concept
tem to assure that at least a certain
number of blacks would be admit-ted.
Some of the blacks in attendance
criticized ACE for having not a
single black administrator among
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The goblins will get you at the
spook-out in the cafeteria tonight.
In the words of Bill Painter, senior
and organizer of this year's Hallo-ween
Party. The get-together to-night
in the cafeteria will be a
"groovy thing".
"We want kids to go out trick-or-
treating before they come to
the party, so they will be dressed
in costumes," says Painter. Alumni
and faculty are invited to come
for social interaction on a lighter
side in the Bethel Community.
John Larson, junior, is recruit-ing
likely-looking spooks for the
Edgren spook house. The senicr
class, under the leadership of
Bruce Otto, will sell slaves to the
highest bidders. Faculty, as well
as student, bodies will be sold.
WASHINGTON—(CPS) — While
almost 2,000 white college presi-dents
and top administrators were
studying "The Campus and Racial
Crisis," 111 black college presidents
were forming their own structure
to deal with crises particular to
their campuses.
All of the administrators were
in Washington October 8-10 for the
annual meeting of the American
Council on Education (ACE).
The black presidents revealed
plans during the meeting for their
new group which will be called
"The Organization of Black Colle-ges"
until a permanent name is de-cided
upon.
The organization is not intended
to be divorced from white schools
or from the total educational pic-ture,
according to Vivian Hender-son,
president of Atlanta's Clark
College and chairman of the new
group. Member presidents will re-tain
their membership in the ACE.
"We are committed to the im-mediate
goal of racial integration
in American life," said President
Martin Jenkins of Morgan State
College.
Henderson said the primary goal
of the group is to influence legis-lation
at all levels of government,
particularly to gain a greater share
of the resources set aside for
higher education for predominantly
black colleges.
"We're in a position of reacting
to legislation rather than influen-cing
its input. We just don't be-lieve
the government can ignore
any longer the counseling, insight,
advice, and long experience we as
black educators have developed,"
Henderson said. "While we do not
believe there is anything racially
exclusive about certain aspects of
the educational process, we know
we have developed certain under-standings
and insights that a per-son
cannot develop from afar."
"The whole spectrum of higher
education is not in the best state.
The small colleges have more prob-lems
than the large universities.
And the small black colleges are
having even a greater (financial)
crisis," Henderson said.
In a separate session President
Herman R. Branson, from Ohio's
black Central State College, called
for "tithing" from white colleges
to black colleges. "Maybe the two
H's in higher education, Harvard
and Howard, can get together. Har-vard
could give Howard one-tenth
of its gifts."
Branson noted that Harvard Uni-versity
can get more financial gifts
annually than the entire United
Negro College Fund.
"The need is great; the neglect
is even greater," Branson said.
"Families that make less than
$8,000 a year can't send a child to
college."
The number of drop-outs at Cen-tral
State last year equaled the
total drop-out figure at Harvard,
Brandeis, MIT and the main cam-pus
of the University of Virginia,
he said. "Most of those at Central
State dropped out for financial
reasons."
Jenkins, speaking with Hender-son,
said, "If the nation is to main-tain
its sanity, these institutions
(black colleges) are going to have
to be used as an essential and im-portant
national resource."
The black presidents maintained
that while their colleges as well as
white colleges must and are be-coming
integrated, there always
will be a role for their colleges to
help educate Americans. Their col-leges
will not die with integrated
education, they said.
At the moment they said their
colleges are extremely vital to the
education of blacks. Nearly half of
the black students in college are
at predominantly black institutions,
while most of the predominantly
white colleges are less than two
per cent black.
Alexander Astin, director of the
Office of Research of the American
Council on Education, said it does
no good for schools to fight over
which one gets the most success-ful
black students, because fighting
for the cream of the crop does not
increase the base number of black
students getting a college educa-tion
Astin said a "lottery" system of
admission, random selection from
all those in the community who
want to attend a college, is the
only democratic way to give all
groups an equal chance at educa-tion.
Admissions criteria should be
abandoned, he said. Astin had pre-viously
favored a black quota sys-
IC3, an association of the seven
Twin City colleges (Bethel, Ham-line,
Macalester, St. Thomas, St.
Catherine, Concordia, and Augs-burg)
is attempting to rise above
a previous record of uselessness.
This year's Committee is re-evaluating
its purpose and func-tion.
Representatives from the col-leges
have met regularly since Sep-tember
and are currently pursuing
goals of common interest. Repre-sentitives
Denny Olson and Arne
Bergstrom report that IC3 is now
functioning as a resource center
so that problems, issues, and situa-tions
which are common to private
small liberal arts colleges may be
dealt with on a larger basis.
The resources at a single small
liberal arts college are usually not
large enough to deal with major
problems confronting education
and the community today. It is
IC3's purpose, therefore, to unite
the potential resources of the col-leges
and function as a touchstone
for educational and community
affairs.
An information pool on all seven
colleges of student leaders, com-mittees,
faculty committees, stu-dent
government and interested
students is being gathered at a
common resource center. It is oper-ated
by a part-time coordinator
hired by IC3, Mark Vaught, a grad-uate
of Macalester College. He is
compiling the information into a
"workable structure."
To add to the atmosphere of the
evening, Bob Olsen, football coach
and Bethel alumnus, will tell a
ghost story. Ghosts will also be pre-sented
during the showing of an
old time flick, The Live Ghost.
Musical entertainment will be
furnished by the Bo Conrad Spit
Band, playing in the unequivical
manner which has warmed the
hearts and cleared the heads of
so many Bethel students.
Various booths will be set up
and contests will be held. Rented
from Minnesota Moorlane, a busi-ness
featuring carnival materials,
the booths include such carnival
games as Flip the Cat, Panda Bear
Toss, Bean Bag Toss, Cane Toss,
and Dart throw.
There will also be apple bobbing
The first result of the resource
center is an information telephone
number. Each Friday, students may
call 699-0988 between 12:00 noon
and 7:00 p.m. to get information on
what is happening at any of the
colleges. Information on lectures,
plays, concerts, sporting events
and dances will be available. In this
way, IC3 hopes to serve the college
communities on a larger social
level.
Expanding the resource idea and
applying it toward educational re-form,
IC3 is planning a symposi
to study the possibilities of course
sharing amoung the seven colleges.
Here again the size of the colleges
can limit the effectiveness in all
areas and by sharing on an equal
basis each college's strong points,
the student can benefit from an
expanded resourse base. One can
see the advantage particularly in
the physical sciences where the
sharing of expensive equipment
would be valuable.
The operating budget of IC3
comes from monies which the stu-dent
governments budget to IC3.
Each school is taxed according to
its population. The budget is used
to help reach goals of common
interest. Besides the resource pool,
IC3 also enables students to travel
abroad at much reduced prices.
IC3 exists for the purpose of
serving the college communities in
the Twin Cities. The individual
student is the final benefactor in
any of the IC3 activities and it is
from the students that IC3 gets the
ideas for services.
and a kissing booth. (No relation
between the two.) Thus far, Julie
Amelsburg has volunteered to
serve in the kissing booth.
Also, a pie-eating contest and a
shaving cream fight will be staged
to help create chuckles. These
events are strictly for guys. (Sorry
girls).
It'll cost two bits to get into the
bash. Tickets for individual games
(10 cents a turn) can be bought at
the ticket booth as you come in the
door. Three prizes will be given
for the best costumes.
"We want kids to have a really
good time when they get together
in an informal social event," Paint-er
summarized. "The party isn't
necessarily a date deal, but if you
want to bring a date, that's fine."
IC3 coordinates
private colleges
`Spook-out' tonight is planned to be 'groovy thing'
Halloween brings spooks, pumpkins, and other things.
"I keep tellin' ya, man, the end of the war
• is just around the corner."
360'4
Ohio Post--CPS
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the CLARION Friday, October 31, 1969
Satisfy emotional hunger
through Jesus commune
Psychology and sociology textbooks declare that man is a "social
creature" and the lack of social contact can reduce man to the level
of animal. Therefore one can assume that man has two choices: he
can exist inside himself (i.e. in his head) with as little contact as possible,
or he can be the "social creature" the social scientist insists he must be.
I have been led to believe that I have been living most of my
life as a "social creature," yet I find myself always alone. I concluded
that the psychologists and sociologists were wrong and we must live
alone. Deciding to go all the way, I began to totally live inside my head.
The step from "social creature" to isolation was indeed a small one.
Gone was the toothy smile, the phoney greetings, and trite hot air
(a better term for conversation) and I was alone. I slowly began to
lose my mind after two weeks, but I hung on hoping for some great
experience in human existence. Animals are nice, but I wouldn't want
to be one.
I began to realize that society's standard of "social creature" and
isolation were for most purposes the same thing. Let's face it, we all
make lousy animals. I then decided to go to the other extreme ,as much
as I was capable). When someone asked, "How are you?", I stopped
and told them exactly how I felt and I asked them exactly how they
felt.
Suddenly I discovered people were avoiding me because maybe I
could see behind the toothy grin and see real emptiness. Now I was back
to where I started — isolated, but from the opposite direction. I had
discovered a massive isolationism alive and well everywhere.
How and where did it come from? It had to be from the people
themselves, but something was selling it and selling it hard. The insti-tutions,
they teach isolation and practice it — the schools, businesses,
government, and yes, even the church. Even though institutions are
made up of people, now the institutions are controlling the people.
But the most frightening thing of all was the way they would eliminate
anyone who tried to break the isolationism.
Here is where I had to go to Jesus for "strength" (more nice words
for "I need help, Jesus"). But emotional "starvation" is suffered by
humans and only humans can correct it. I read in the New Testament
and saw how the early Christians were able to live as wholly "social
creatures" through the love of God. Their society and institutions
would not let them exists on a Jesus-level (hadn't they eliminated him?)
so they banded together for existence in what we call a commune and
what they called a church. Their church was a 24 hour a day, seven
days a week living-worship experience, not a two hour once a week
social gathering.
The idea creeps into my head — a Jesus commune, not for isolation
but for existence as whole "social creatures". "Stay and change it" jumps
into my head, but once you taste and satisfy some of the emotional
hunger you want complete satisfaction.
Jesus told the woman at the well she will never hunger or thirst
if she takes the living bread and water, but why are we hungry, why
do we thirst? How can one who has not tasted know the taste?
Must I stand alone against the actions of dehumanized, isolationist
institutions (and the people who make them up) or will others admit
their hunger and defeat the now victorious institutions?
Arne Bergstrom, class of '70
Oaffiti
Men are trapped in their own creations.
People everywhere just gotta be free.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Sun King is coming.
I shall be released.
Listening is loving.
Power to the people.
Bread to the birds.
You are sane, the world is crazy.
Must communication, discussion
be crisis situation phenomena?
The editorial of the October 24 issue of the Clarion apparently
stimulated quite a little discussion on campus. That was what it was
meant to do.
As I sat one morning in discussion of the editorial and some of
the issues it brought to focus, my mind wandered to previous editorials
this semester. Generally they have been of a philosophical nature — no
personalities involved, their substance being greatly ideas rather than
persons.
In spite of the fact that the ideas presented through the editorials
could not possibly be congruous with the thinking of many on campus,
there were no reactions, and as far as I could tell no discussion.
A prime example of the situation is the editorial in the September
19 issue of the Clarion which challenged inconsistencies in the Annual
Address of the President. A few days after the paper came out, I was
over to see the President. The Clarion was discussed, but though I
waited, the word editorial was not even mentioned.
The comparison in reactions between the other editorials, the
September one in particular, and last week's editorial seem to lead
to the question: must a "scandal" be created before communication can
take place or; why do people fail to communicate until a crisis situation
arises. Perhaps communication could prevent crisis situations?
Present rate of troop withdrawal
from Vietnam will take 294 years
WASHINGTON—(CPS)—the offi-cial
Petagon figures for the num-ber
of U.S. troops in Vietnam for
the last six weeks show a with-drawal
rate that would get the
U.S. out of Vietnam in 294 years.
The net withdrawal figure in the
six weeks between August 31 and
October 2 shows a reduction of
200 men.
fax
by Tom Ford
"THE LEOPARD-SPOT SOLUTION"
The first major alternative to the policy of Vietnamizing the war
is the "stand-still cease-fire" proposal of former Paris negotiator Cyrus
Vance. Basically this "Leopard-spot" settlement would mean an immedi-ate
end to all fighting and a withdrawal of United States and North
Vienamese forces as swiftly as possible.
Both sides would accept the control the other has over the South
Vietnamese countryside. Both sides would remain in possession of their
present territory though the country of South Vietnam would not be
physically partitioned, two separate structures of government would
coexist within the nation.
After the withdrawal of foreign troops, the South Vietnamese and
the Viet Cong's National Liberation Front would each establish a gov-ernment
over the land and people they held. Both governments would
agree to allow the free flow of trade, people, and even unarmed soldiers
from one zone to another. Enforcement of this agreement would be
left in the hands of a United Nations police force.
This working agreement would provide the springboard for a
possible coalition government and the reunification of the South. The
agreement could, given a chance, go on for long enough a time for the
sides to reach a lasting settlement.
It is important to realize that a "Leopard-spot settlement would
only be temporary. It is a cooling-off stage in which both sides could let
their hostilities subside and during which some semblance of order
could be restored to the South.
There are many advantages to this plan. First, the fighting would
come to an end before a final settlement is reached, saving countless
lives. Neither side would be forced to give up what it now holds in
order to bring about a cease-fire.
Secondly, the United States could take itself out of the war without
doing serious harm to its national prestige,—a major concern to the
men in Washington. There would be no winners or losers. The war
would end as a stalemate.
There are serious shortcomings to this plan, however. A very
similar situation existed with the British partition of the Palestine
Mandate. The various zones of the Hebrew State were surrounded by
the Arab state of Jordan. True to this pattern, there would probably be
a great deal of agitation on both sides to make a lightning stroke to
liquidate the other side.
Another major shortcoming would be the ability of a U.N. police
force to keep the area free of combat. The hatreds that have been
created by two decades of warfare will not subside very easily. Related
to this has been the reluctance of the U.N. to have anything to do
with the Vietnamese question. Will the U.N. fill this void now when it
has refused in the past?
In conclusion, it is worthy to note that such a cease-fire settlement
would prevent the blood bath many Americans fear will happen if
we pull out. It gives Vietnam a chance to stabilize and allows for a
settlement made without warfare.
And, as I. F. Stone's Weekly
pointed out October 20, the U.S.
has reductd its troop level by only
400 since the Tet Offensive in Feb-rurary,
1968—nineteen months ago.
At that time the U.S. had 510,000
men in Vietnam; early this month
the U.S. still had 509,600 men in
Vietnam.
Admissions .. .
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its 25 officers. And Elizabeth Den-erson
Scobell, assistant librarian
from predominantly black West
Virginia State College, told the del-egates
to listen to youth. "You are
white, male, and over 30—that's
middle aged in youth circles," she
told the administrators. "Yet youth,
those under 25, are becoming the
majority of the population." It's
time to listen to what they want
their eductaton and society to be,
she said.
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by Pastor Maurice C. Lawson
"Sex Morality in the Scriptures
and in Our Times" will be Dr.
Al Glenn's subject on Monday when
he presents the second in his Mon-day
series on the theme "Christian
Morality." Tuesday will be a time
of sharing. The chapel hour will
be thrown open for anyone to
come with a testimony or a re-quest
for prayer support. "How
Jesus Won Sinners" will be the
campus pastor's topic on Wednes-day,
with NEW music.
One of our first year students
from Thailand, "Vacharee ("Jeed")
Sriswad, will tell of her conversion
from Buddhism to Christianity and
will show pictures of her home-land
on Thursday. The week of
emphasis on personal Christian ex-perience
will come to an end on
Friday when student testimonies
will be given — one by a student,
recently saved, whose vocation was
a night club musician, another by
a missionary's son who has now
received an appointment himself
by the mission and to the field in
which his father serves.
the CLARION
Published weekly during the academic
year, except during vacation and exami-nation
periods, by the students of Bethel
College, St. Paul, Minn. 55101. Sub-scription
rate $4 per year.
Editor in chief Pat Faxon
News Editor Marjorie Rusche
Sports Editor Tim Weko
Copy Editors Toni Magnuson
Missy McCool
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Proofreaders Ann Dalton
Sharon Watson
Circulation Managor Joey Healy
Photographer Ray Smith
Technical Advisor Mark Olson
Advisor Jon Fagerson
Opinions expressed in the CLARION do
not necessarily reflect the position of the
college or seminary.
Friday, October 31, 1969
the CLARION page 3
October 24 Clarion provokes reaction
Second Vietnam petition shows Alumnus tells students to be agressive
misunderstanding of Bethel stand
questions wisdom of working on
To the editor:
An article in the October 24
issue of the Clarion shows a basic
lack of understanding of the Viet-nam
Moratorium as it applied to
our college campus. The article
mentioned a petition which was
circulated to "affirm our confi-dence
in the U.S. government's ex-pressed
intention and active work
to establish a peaceful settlement
of the war at the Paris Conference
Table . . ." With this second peti-tion
I have no quarrel, but the arti-cle
also stated that Mr. Rolland
Shearer and Dr. Arthur Lewis were
dissatisfied with the first petition
because "the overtones . . . were
anti-government." Later on, the ar-ticle
again said that Mr. Shearer
realized that there is a lot more
to be accompilshed, but that the
". .. Moratorium day should not
have had an anti-government em-phasis."
The sine qua non of an open
society is open discussion of issues
in the market place of public opin-ion.
Certainly an academic com-munity
ought to accept the premise
of a free and open discussion, ac-cepting
the fact that disagreement
will result, without one segment
attempting to impugn the motives
or patriotism of the other. The
"hawk" and "dove" positions date
back to an earlier era and dissent
regarding the war should not now
To the editor:
Although I (along with the ma-jority
of "timid bookish parasites"
in the music department) was per-haps
justifiably upset with articles
appearing in the latest Clarion, I
would like to direct comments to
only a few points from the edi-torial.
First of all, the issue of repre-senting
the Bethel community.
Just who is it that best represents
Bethel cultural attitudes—the mu-sic
department or the Clarion? The
music department stands for a
type of cultural expression that has
proven through the years to com-municate
most effectively to an
enormously large number of peo-ple.
But does this type of music
tell "where Bethel is at?"
The students are the school and
the majority of students are not in
the music department and for
various reasons do not agree with
its ideas or aesthetics. For example,
following the concert presented in
chapel by the woodwind quintet
from the St. Paul Philharmonic
Chamber Orchestra, I overheard a
sophomore boy say, "Now, that
was a waste of time. I mean, they
played good and everything, but
it was just a waste." It was gen-erally
agreed by both student and
faculty in the music department
that this same concert that was
"a waste of time" to some was
one of the finest concerts we have
had on campus.
It therefore appears that the
music department does not reflect
the cultural interest of Bethel
students. Unfortuantely, the Clarion
does. If the music department is to
fairly represent Bethel, maybe it
would be advisable for tour groups
to take along copies of the Clarion
in order for prospective students
to see both the music department
and the real Bethel.
The editorial suggested to me
that the writer felt that the music
be construed as something which
has been invented to plague the
Nixon administration.
Many on the college campus
chose not to sign any petitions,
attend teach-ins, or participate in
the numerous activities scheduled
for that evening throughout the
Twin Cities. That was their privi-lege
and no further comment is
necessary. The college president,
however, stated that our campus
had joined in this nation-wide ex-pression
of concern and he then
listed the activities scheduled for
that day. The subsequent disclaim-er
by the campus pastor regarding
chapel did not necessarily negate
his statements. Our campus, there-fore,
was involved.
If the Republican Party can main-tain
a place for a man like Senator
Hatfield, in spite of his anti-Viet-nam
stand, then perhaps our cam-pus
should likewise encourage dis-sent
without having to revert to
the worn-out arguments expressed
in None Dare Call It Treason. That
book, incidentally, took a true anti-government
stance, but I recom-mended
its dissemination notwith-standing.
If we want our evangeli-calism
to be a penetrating force
in our present society, we have to
stop pretending that we can ig-nore
issues and they will go away.
James E. Johnson
Professor of History
department was doing the school
a gross disservice by sending choral
and instrumental groups on tour.
Since these groups do not ade-quately
say what Bethel is really
like, the most obvious conclusion
seems to be that all music tours
should be discontinued. Along with
tours, maybe we should also drop
the Festival of Christmas. Of
course, I am being somewhat fa-cetious.
In talking with people who are
not sufficiently acquaintel with
Bethel, I have found that many
think of Bethel on two points. One
is the fanatical, out-of-it type of
ultra-religious school. On a return
trip from California last Easter, I
sat next to the assistant chaplain
from a nearby college. 'He express-ed
this type of knowledge of Bethel
by derisively asking of Bethel was
"s till determined to save the
world." He seemed to think we
have a school of fanatical "holy
rollers." I doubt if this is the image
we really want.
On the positive side, many peo-ple
know of Bethel only because
of the Festival of Christmas. Whe-ther
or not the various departments
(including of course, music) in-volved
represent the real Bethel
to those who come only because
they have heard about the program
is not an issue. Festival of Christ-mas
(as are music tours) is an ef-fective
means of witness to the out-side
world.
So we have both negative and
positive images. The latter being at
least partly advanced by the music
department. (Incidentally, it is not
the purpose of tours to recruit
students. That is merely an im-portant
by-product..)
Why did this issue ever come up
anyway? It seems as though it was
brought out largely by members
of the music faculty. I am sure a
good share of the student body
feels is was done because the music
faculty (and music students) feel
Editor's note: Since Mr. Stolpe's
graduation from Bethel in 1969,
he has joined the national staff
of Christian Service Brigade and
is now managing editor of Bri-gade
Leader Magazine.
To the editor:
It has become increasingly obvi-ous
that no single group of faculty
or students (even the music de-partment)
can fairly represent the
sentiments and nature of the Beth-el
student community, much less
control it. No amount of lecture in
Fine Arts, discussion in faculty
meetings or anger in the Clarion
will alter the listening habits of
Bethel students or relieve their
frustrations with "traditional
church music."
Since moving to Illinois, I have
seen music play a major part in
renewing the students of our con-gregation,
and it was contemporary
music, with a "beat." There was
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they have all the answers and
wish to impose their ideas upon
everybody else. Whether or not we
musicians do or not have all the
answers is not as important as
whether or not these answers are
forced on others.
I am positive the issues were
brought up because the faculty is
concerned and wants each student
to think it out for himself with
fair advantage given to all sides.
I think I know the music faculty
well enough to know this is true.
In a choral conducting class, Dr.
Berglund once said that he did not
want any student coming out of
Bethel looking like a little Berg-lund
or little Whitinger or a little
anybody else. He was speaking
specifically about style and tech-nique
in conducting, but more
broadly, he was saying that we
should think for ourselves and de-cide
what is right for us and not
accept anything just because some-body
else thinks a particular way.
Now, isn't that the purpose of a
college education?
Now, for the real crux of this
letter in my own thinking. I was
contacted some time ago by Dr.
Berglund concerning the writing of
music reviews for the Clarion and
I agreed to do so. Subsequently,
the Clarion news editor talked to
me and it was determined that I
would attend a concert by the Min-nesota
Orchestra on October 31 and
write a review for the next week's
issue. Now, following the state-ments
found in the October 24 Clar-ion,
I am questioning myself con-cerning
the wisdom of working on
the staff of a paper that is obvious-ly
not in close agreement with what
I hold to be true. Would I really be
doing a service to the student
body? Or would I be working a-gainst
myself, my musical beliefs,
and the entire music department?
I am not sure that I know.
Jay Swisher '70
no "show" for them, simply a me-dium
that spoke Christ meaning-fully
into their lives. "Traditional
church music" had been a serious
block to their spiritual develop-ment,
but a little "folk," a little
"beat" became the first step in
their discovery of a meaningful
Chirst. This all happened without
alienating even one of the "over
30." All had come to realize that
two cultures are at most different,
not superior or inferior, even gen-erational
cultures.
However, Bethel has a public
Student defends
To the editor:
I am writing in regard to the
blind condemnation of the entire
music department in the Friday,
October 24th Clarion. It seems to
me that the editor of our All-Amer-ican
newspaper could document
her accusations with facts rather
than obviously erroneous opinions
concerning the music students and
faculty.
In the first place, It was stated
that the image presented by stu-dens
in musical organizaions is a
distorted image of the Bethel com-munity.
There are over 200 mem-bers
involved in the touring groups.
To say that all of these, or even
the majority are unfit to convey
"Where Bethel is at" is simply an
unfounded accusation.
I would be the first to admit
that I am not a spiritual giant on
this campus, but my purpose in
being in music is to serve Christ
in the best possible way according
to the desires and abilities which
He has given me. I have experienc-ed
more spiritual growth in College
Choir because of the music we have
sung and the influence of the ma-ture
spiritual thinking of fellow
choir members and Dr. Robert
Berglund, than in any other single
phase of my college life. I know
that this is also true of many other
members of College Choir and all
of the other groups.
Why is it necessary, then to
condemn our spiritual influence
because our avenue of self-expres-sion,
and our level of musical ap-preciation
and understanding is
different from the so-called typical
Bethel student?
The second possibility statel was
that music students are perhaps
the "timid, bookish parasites" on
campus. If any research had been
done to find out exactely who
music students are, the inquirer
would have readily found out how
ridiculous this line of thinking is.
Involved in the music program are
students who are active partici-pants
if all facets of Bethel society.
It isn't hard to find examples of
leaders, atheletes and scholars who
are also fine musicians. A study
of last year's Who's Who list re-veals
that one third of the 25 who
were elected were involved some
way in music. Out of 16 class of-ficers,
eight were in music in some
form.
In the past two graduating class-es,
one of the top two students
has been a musician. Musical or-ganizations
have helped supply the
Homecoming and Sno-Daze Courts
relations problem; it must attract
students while pleasing their par-ents
and pastors. Who will form
the image of the "Bethel student?"
To distort that image in the name
of public relations or "taste" in
music is dishonest. Students, it is
your image; it is your responsi-bility
to gressively form it your-selves.
As we stand on the verge
of a new reformation, don't let
anyone rip the guts out of it by
killing music.
Norman Stolpe '69
Musical groups
with many beautiful young ladies
for years and significantly six of
the twelve student missionaries
last summer were involved in per-forming
organizations. Could these
outstanding individuals possibly be
representatives of the "d e a d
weight" of the campus? I am in no
way trying to slight those indivi-duals
who are actively involved in
Bethel life but not in music, but I
am merely pointing out that fact
that the music department not
only attracts the persons who accu-rately
represent Bethel life, but
those who represent the best that
Bethel has to offer.
I feel strongly that the Bethel
music department, under the very
capable musical and spiritual lea-dership
of its faculty members, is
making not only a significant con-tribution
to the daily campus life,
but is performing a relavant min-istry
to the outside world through
music.
I would hope that in the future
the Clarion would refrain from
comdemning the music department
and displaying its obvious lack of
musical and personal understand-ing.
A high level of excellence is
being achieved in music and a
great deal of self-dicipline and
hard work is involved in arriving as
such a level. Rather than doubting
our motivation and achievements,
it would be wise to allow our spor-itual
and personal lives be judged
by God alone.
Within the choral program alone
there are three seperate ministeries
performed, each appeals to a dif-ferent
type of people. Our musical
ministery is not to hippies, but
this does'nt mean we don't min-ister.
Everyone in in need of Christ
not just hippies.
Perhaps those people who feel
so strongly about the lack of rel-evance
of the music department
•would reconsider their position and
concern themselves with the best
way for them to serve. If my in-terests
and desires are right be-tween
God and myself, there is no
reason for any other individual to
doubt that my actions are proper.
I trust that God will continue to
abundantly bless our department,
and that people will not only be-come
interested in Bethel because
of it, but will be won to Christ.
Lynette Port '71
Music student not in agreement with Clarion
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J. Leonard Carroll, Pastor
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BUS LEAVES EACH SUNDAY: 9:25 A.M. and 6:40 P.M.
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Pastor—Robert Featherstone
Assistant Pastor—Bill Malam
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Faculty members report on sabbatical
Dear editor:
I understand that the new Alumni
director—who is a personal friend
and whose appointment I applaud
—was, however, hired without con-sultation
with the Alumni Council.
I also understand that the Alumnus
of the Year, a man I do not know
and have no reason to suspect as
undeserving of the honor, was
chosen in direct opposition to
written policy outlined by the
Alumni Council when the concept
initiated. (The Alumni are to be
polled and are to do the choosing.
I and other Alumni had no voice
in this supposedly Alumni choice.)
But these are merely symptoms
of the fact that, as far as I can
surmise, the Alumni Council is no
more than a figurehead represent-ing
thousands of Bethel Alumni
To the editor:
This is prehaps not the place to
quote Harry Emerson Fosdick, who
once said something like this:
Christianity is like good music: it
is meant to be played not defended.
Who ever heard of the members of
a great symphony leaving their
chairs, instruments in hand, and
walking up and down the aisles,
beating patrons on the head saying,
"This is good music! This is good
music!"
who are viewed as no more than a
pool for financial support—Alumni
who, if they felt great identity with
Bethel, would give energetic verb-al
support, would send outstanding
students and quality athletes and
actors and debaters and singers
to "their school" (as well as more
money).
In a time when my school needs
to mobilize all its resources in
order to continue making signifi-cant
contributions to students, com-munity
and the Faith, I believe it
is cutting itself off from me and
thousands of others like me. I
care about Bethel College. Other
alumni care too. Can we give the
Alumni Council some identity and
power? Are there other alumni
out there who feel as I do?
Phil Bolinder
It is perhaps more appropriate to
quote William Penn: "Truth often
suffers more from the heat of its
defenders than from the arguments
of its opposers."
My own suggestion is that the
music department continue to de-fent
their "good music" and that
the pop fans continue to play
theirs.
Donald N. Larson
Social Science Dept. head
Professor of Anthropology
by Dave Shupe
Retracing the travels of an evan-gelist
through rural England, tour-ing
the art galleries of Italy, and
translating German plays were a-mong
the activities of Bethel facul-ty
taking sabbatical leaves last
year.
James Johnson, Professor of His-tory,
Robert Clark Nelson, Assis-tant
Professor of Art, and Dale
Rott, Assistant Professor of Speech,
all chose projects of particular in-terest
to them for the year's time.
James Johnson divided his sab-batical
into two areas of interest.
During the fall and winter, Johnson
was able to open up a new area of
study, social welfare of the twen-tieth
century. During these months
he did primary research at the
Social Welfare Archives at the
University of Minnesota. He re-searched
elsewhere in New York
City, where the earliest charity
organizations were founded, and in
James Johnson
Robert Nelson
Washington D.C. at the Health,
Education and Welfare Archives.
He hopes to write a book on child
welfare,
In April, Johnson traveled to
England to continue his study of
Charles G. Finney, Presbyterian
itinerant revivalist, who himself
traveled to Englend in the 1850's
on two evangelistic campaigns.
Johnson studied at the British
Museum, then followed Finney's
path through the British Isles, at
each town studying records of the
impact made by the evangelist. At
Houghton, England, Johnson spoke
in the same pulpit from which
Finney first preached in England.
Johnson and his wife concluded the
year by driving through continental
Europe.
Robert Clark Nelson divided his
time between part-time teaching
at Bethel and a number of other
accomplishments: 131 art pieces
produced six exhibitions, 36 books
read, seven conferences, 13 lec-tures,
five weeks of travel, and
three shows with lights, two of
them included with jazz masses.
Especially notable were his first
prize award in painting at the 1968
Minnesota State Fair, his tours of
art galleries in New York and Italy,
and his art design project for
Viterbo College, La Crosse, Wis-consin.
Dale Rott also spent some time
at Bethel, primarily working on
the Christmas production, Amahl
and the Night Visitors, while con-tinuing
his advanced graduate
work. Such work included his lan-guage
requirement for his Ph. D.,
and preparation for his written
exams, which he will be taking
shortly. Rott translated numerous
German texts, including plays.
These, he said, gave him a feeling
of the culture of the German peo-ple.
Much of his research was done
on his farm north of the Cities.
Dale Rott
Bethel Forum
Alumnus feels alienated
Christianity is like good music;
meant to be played, not defended
Benson seen as replacement for
Gen. Hershey in Selective Service
Thievery climbs, gains attention
Paul Resnick, editor of the cam-pus
newspaper, says that "Benson
was very conservative, but he was
always fair and honest. Students
had a lot of respect for him."
When Benson first came to Clare-mont
in 1946, CMC had not yet
opened its doors and assets were
ness than $50,000. When he left
this September, there were 800 stu-dents
and assets had climbed to $25
million. CMC is frequently recog-nized
as one of the 10 bets inde-pendent
men's colleges in the coun-try.
Benson long favored cracking
down on students, and while Ben-son
never did hand out overly pu-nitive
sentences, he made it clear
he wished he could. Speaking last
May, he looked back over his ca-reer:
"Students have changed, and
there's been a shift in the balance
of power. 15 years ago, if we heard
there was a threat of a panty raid,
I'd go out and could tell the stu-dents
`If you go down to the wo-men's
dorm, I'll throw you out.'
"Now the President is reduced
to something like a political leader.
He can't suspend or expel students.
It goes through a faculty-student
tribunal.
"The faculty has more power,
and until the faculties stiffen up,
the disruption on campuses will
continue. It's a question of tough-ness.
You know, do you have back-bone."
Despite the fact that he holds a
Ph. D. in Political Science, and
taught at Harvard, Chicago, Michi-gan
and Northwestern, faculties
never were among his favorite
groups. In December, 1948, having
been president of CMC for over
two years, Benson waded into the
fight over communism on the cam-pus,
issuing something less than a
ringing defense of academic free-dom.
"Most professors are not red.
Few of them are consciously pink.
But many, perhaps most of them,
have encouraged student pinkness
by failing to stress the more sig-nificant
values of the American
tradition.
"Much of Europe's present dif-ficulties
are due to the thorough
permeation jApf the intellectuals
with Marxist ideas. Although few
seditious professors have been
turned up by the Committee on Un-
American Activities, its list of sus-pects
have certainly included a sub-stantial
unmber of highly educated
men and women."
Benson went on to stress the
academic failure to present a pos-itive
view of American civilization,
noting that many professors pre-sented
American democracy as just
one of several forms of govern-ment.
"And too often," Benson contin-lued,
"the professor keeps right on
professing, year in and year out,
without muddying his feet in the
swamp of practicality. This leads
to a lack of realism in my academic
bretheren, which often leads to
leftism."
Lectism never infected Benson,
and he did his best to keep it away
from his college. In 1958, he ex-plained
that, "We have the great-est
system mankind has developed
—individual freedom. That's why
here at CMC we try to teach poli-tics
and business policy together;
in other words, political economy in
a free society."
Businessmen have long been
Benson's favorite group, one which
he hoped wiuld oppose the en-croachments
of big government and
collectivism. In 1960, he told the
California Mortgage Banker's As-sociation
that there was a "pressing
need for businessmen to get out
and take a more active role in
politics to help preserve our way
of life."
The threat to "our way of life"
was from the left, in Benson's
view. Wondering whether the trend
would be reversed, he wrote in
1964 that "The answer to this
question obviously lies somewhat
with the many intelligent idealists
who have vited . .. under the im-pression
that labor is somehow
better than capital, and that they
were aiding the ordinary man by
voting in a number of mildly col-lectivist
measures.
"If these intellectual idealists be-gin
to learn some of the lessons
learned since World War II by
their European Counterparts—the
lesson of the dangers of collectiv-ism
to political and social liberty
and progress—there may be some
chance of change."
In 1958, representing the Amer-ican
Enterprise Association, Ben-son
went to Washington to oppose
federal aid to education. "Any
national grant," said Benson, "is
a camel's nose in education's tent.
Both history and folklore suggest
that the camel will eventually take
over."
Benson often referred to the
dangers of big government, but he
always made an exception for na-tional
defense. A colonel in Army
Intelligence during World War U,
he joined the Reserves after the
war and again rose to the rank of
colonel. He was instrumental in
beginning ROTC at CMC and its
sister institution, Pomona College.
He served on the Department of
Defense ROTC advisory panel from
its inception in 1950, becoming
chairman in 1958.
by Jan Ullberg
Once again Bethel is being
plagued by the problem of thiev-ery.
Along with perenial locker
room pilfering and geneal mys-terious
disappearances within the
dorms, a number of major items
have been taken. These include
Edgren's stereo and color televi-sion,
ad Bodien's portable televi-sion.
Besides the large thefts, several
small thefts constitute a large a-mount
of money. According to Mr.
Rainbow, the second floor of Ed-gren
alone, between $140 and $160
has been stolen this year. This has
been removed in small amounts.
Most thefts in the girls' dorms, the
coffee shop and cafeteria involve
unattended purses. The New Dorm
has not escaped either. Twice last
week, cars were broken into and
various items were taken.
Attempts at prevention may in-clude
the formation of some type
of security system, primarily for
Edgren. The main responsibility
for prevention, however, must lie
with the members of the commun-ity
in utilizing common sense prac-tices
such as locking rooms and
cars and otherwise protecting per-sonal
belongings.
Friday, October 31, 1969
the CLARION
page 5
by Chuck Myrbo
I saw "A Thousand Clowns" again last summer. I fell in
love with the girl agin, and I was just as impressed with
Murray Burns.
Scene: the abandoned Chinese restaurant under Murray's
apartment in the Bronx.
(Enter Murray and his brother.) Murray is trying to explain
why he walked out on several job interviews that morning.
He speaks: "One day several months ago I was riding the
commuter train home from work, and for a few minutes I
couldn't be sure, without real-y concentrating, what day it was.
It could have been a Monday, or a Tuesday, or a Thursday."
(As he mentions each day there are scenes of a crowded
New York sidewalk.)
He speaks again: "I gotta know what day it is."
For several weeks during June the Midway National Bank
had on its neon bulletin board (which dominates the Snelling-
University intersection) a slogan designed to make Twin Citians
better people:
PRE$TIGE
IS SPELLED WITH
START NOW
One weekend we went to a cabin on the St. Croix to help
the owner clear the brush off his beach. His son Geno, age
five, played at helping us for a while, and then lay down on
a lounge chair, closed his eyes, and said, "This is living."
Murray Burns in the Chinese restaurant made me think
that Geno O'Brien is, at five years old, ready to write material
for The Midway National Bank, and that my twenty years have
brought me to the door of that same Chinese restaurant — with
a bad taste in my mouth from a big bank and a little boy.
`Born to Free' theme of Festival
Pops Concert features Island music
Take the chill out of your bones
and come along with the Bethel
Band to the tropics in the Pacific.
At its 9th annual Pops Concert,
the band is going on a musical
journey to experience the "Magic
of the South Sea Islands." The
concert will be Friday, November
7 at 8:00, in the fieldhouse.
The program has been planned
to provide a night of musical fun
and enjoyment. The auditorium will
be decorated in the South Sea
Island motif, and refreshments will
be on sale.
The concert, sponsored by the
Bethel Women's Auxiliary, presents
the Bethel Concert Band in its
first major performance of the
season, with Julius Whitinger con-ducting
and Gerald Healy narrat-ing.
(CPS)��If "The Selling of the
President 1968" tells us anything,
it tells us that despite the recog-nized
need, at the time, for a poli-tical
leader who could "bring us
together," Richard Nixon was sold
to the American voter through a
campaign which soft-peddled white
racism and took an ignorant public
for granted.
Joe McGinniss should be criticized
only for not letting the American
people in on some of the "behind
scenes" manipulating which result-ed
in election of Richard Nixon as
the 37th President of the United
States while they still could do
something about it. Now, in retro-spect,
the book could easily be re-titled
"Understanding Your Presi-dent"
and promoted as a handbook
for peaple who want to know why
Nixon is Nixon.
"The Selling of the President
1968" states, without reservation,
that the American people were
"sold" a bill of goods during the
Nixon campaign. Surrounded by
an expert team of media minipula-tors,
Richard Nixon won on tech-nique
rather than substance. One
of those aides is quoted candidly,
in a conversation; ". . . The most
powerful man in the world. And
he's (Nixon) going to be elected
on what he didn't say. He's created
an image of himself through corn-ball
sunsets and WASP-y faces and
no one remembers what he says.
Which is gobbledy-gook anyway, of
course."
When a hint of substance did
creep into the Nixon campaign it
was carefully engineered to as-sure
maximum results when the
voters went to the polls — every
detail was examined and evaluated.
A commercial entitled "Vietnam,"
which includes a series of "wound-ed
soldier" pictures backed with
the Nixon "nonposition" on ending
the war, was judged, according to
McGinniss, not acceptable for show-ing
in the South and Southwest
by one of Nixon's media men. "His
reasoning was quite simple:" states
McGinniss. "A picture of a wound-ed
soldier was a reminder that the
people who fight wars get hurt.
This, he (the aid) felt, might cause
resentment among those Americans
who got such a big kick out of
cheering for wars from their Legion
halls and barrooms half a world
away. "So bury the dead in silence
The concert will begin at 8 p.m.
Admission will be $1 for adults,
50 cents for students and 25 cents
for children.
The program is as follows:
Overture, The Beautiful Galatea
von Suppe
March, Old Comrades Teike
Three Seasonal Selections:
Autumn Leaves Marcer-Reed
September Song Weill
Stormy Weather Koehler-Caravas
Comedians Galop
Kab alevsky-Moff it
Marcarena, Spanish March
Monterde-Moffit
Janta A Jag, Swedish Folk Sonk
arr. Maltby
Jazz Waltz Maltby
Two Patriotic Selections:
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Steff e-Mof fit
. . . before you blow North Caro-lina."
The major part of Nixon's tele-vision
campaign was centered a-round
hour long "man in the
arena" shows staged by the Nixon
media troops. Packed with local
members of Republican clubs for
affect, and including questions tos-sed
at the candidate by a panel
of average citizens, the shows were
geared at regional audiences. It was
in this phase of the campaign
that McGinniss found the greatest
evidence of racism. The feeling
among the "engineers" was that a
balanced panel was essential.
"First, this meant a Negro. One
Negro. Not two. Two would be of-fensive
to whites, perhaps to Ne-groes
as well. Two would be trying
too hard. One was necessary and
safe. Fourteen percent of the pop-ulation
applied to a six or seven
member panel, equaled one. Texas
would be tricky, though. Do you
have a Negro and a Mexican-Ameri-can,
or if not, then which?"
McGinniss recalls in the book a
conversation which took place
while the "team" was preparing
for an arena spot that was to be
shot in Philadelphia:
". . . On this one we definitely
need a Negro. I (an aid) don't
think it's necessary to have one in
every group of six people, no mat-ter
what our ethnic experts say,
but in Philadelphia it is. U.S.
News and World Report this week
says that one of every three votes
cast in Philadelphia will be Ne-gro.
And goddammit, we're locked
into the thing, anyway. Once you
start it's hard as hell to stop, be-cause
the press will pick it up
and make a big deal out of why
no Negro all of a sudden.
". . . I (a local production man)
know one in Philadelphia . . . He's
a dynamic type, the head of a
self help organization, that kind of
thing. And he is black.
"What do you mean, he's black?"
"I mean he's dark. It will be
obvious on television that he's not
white."
"You mean we won't have to
put a sign around him that says,
`This is our Negro'?"
"Absolutely not."
"Fine. Call him. Let's get this
thing going."
In the still commercials, which
became a trademark of the cam-paign,
the undertone of racism was
also found. McGinniss reports the
This is My Country Raye-Ades
— Intermission —
Songs of the Islands Morrissey
Holiday Moods:
Bugler's Holiday
Anderson-Edwards
Trumpeters: Fred Brumm,
James Fulton
Mavis McClung
Flute Cocktail Simeone
Flautists: Harriet Anderson,
Gail Klemetti
Marilyn Goff
Holiday for Trombones
Rose-Herfurth
Featured: the trombone section
Beguine for Band Osser
Highlights from South Pacific
Rodgers and Hammerstein-
Lang
reaction of one of the creative
people in the campaign to "politi-cal'
changes in his work.
"They had to change something
in every single spot. The riot
commercial originally ended with a
picture of a Negro boy staring into
the smoldering ruins of what had
been his home. That had to go:
for political reasons, they said.
They (the Nixon advisors) were
afraid they'd be accused of trying
to stir up sympathy for Negroes
who riot. We also had to drop
a shot of a group of Negroes look-ing
at the same kind of thing. It
wasn't bland enough. We had to
use inhabited ruins."
In another still commercial a
young black soldier's face filled
the screen while Nixon was saying
"They provide most of the soldiers
who died to keep us free." The
remark was intended for the "for-gotten
Americans" but the Nixon
manipulators decided that the
black soldier would have to go.
"We can't show a Negro just as
RN's saying 'most of the soldiers
who die to keep us free' . . . That's
been one of their big claims all
along — that the draft is unfair
to them — and this could be inter-preted
in a way that would make us
appear to be taking their side."
Later when the person directing
the still commercials wanted to
do one on Black Capitalism he en-countered
something that no one
on the Nixon staff could under-stand.
He had sent a photographer
out to take some appropriate pic-tures!
"An hour after he started work,
the photographer called Gene
Jones and said when he had start-ed
lining Negroes up on the street
to pose he had been asked by a
few young men what he was doing.
When he told them he was taking
pictures for a Richard Nixon com-mercial,
it was suggested to him
that he remove himself and his
camera from the vicinity. Fast."
The head engineer of the Nixon
media campaign remarked upon
hearing this account, "Gee, isn't
that strange . . . I can't under-stand
an attitude like that."
The "new" Nixon of 1968 is
rapidly reverting to the Nixon we
all knew in 1962. His reluctance
to be the "man in the arena" for
reporters over the past months
indicates that his image-makers
really didn't finish their job.
Their "image" is terribly inse-cure
about his "image."
by Betty Eckstrom
This year's Festival of Christmas
will be unique in many ways. While
it will include the band, a brass
group and the choirs, it will also
feature a handbell choir from the
Park Avenue Covenant Church.
This boys choir is directed by Dr.
Gordon Howell of Bethel's music
departcent.
The handbell choir has been in
existence for three years and at
present is made up of 10 boys in
grades 7-10. Using 37 bells, they
have performed for organizations
as diverse as the St. Paul Schubert
Club and Stillwater Prison. During
the prelude to the Festival, the
handbell choir and band will play
alternately. They will also do some
solo numbers, play with the Male
Chorus and join with the Festival
Choir on "Silent Night."
The theme is also unique in con-ception
and expression. It is "Born
to Free" and the program and
theme are based on the hymn
"Come Thou Long Expected Jesus."
The full theme reads:
Born to free
Born to free the nations
Born to free the nations and reign
Born to free the nations and reign
eternally.
Richard Sieber will conduct the
University of Minnesota Symphony
Oi chestra in its first concert of
the season on Sunday, November
2 at 4 p.m. in Northrop Memorial
Auditorium.
Appearing with the Orchestra as
soloist will be Joseph Roche, Min-nesota
Orchestra violin section
member, who will play Mozart's
Adagio in E, K 261, and a violin
As far as the participation of the
band is concerned, all the numbers
which will be presented are new
for this year. They include "Over-ture
to the Messiah," "There Shall
A Star Come Out Of David," and
"Greensleeves." The brass choir
will be used more as accompni-ment.
According to the information
given by Dr. Robert Berglund, the
College Choir will be presenting a
selection by a contemporary com-poser.
"Christmas Cantata" by
Daniel Pinkham. This will include
a double brass choir.
There will only be three perfor-mances
this year. They will be the
evening of Friday, December 5 at
8 p.m., Saturday, December 6 at
8 p.m. and Sunday afternoon, De-cember
7 at 3 p.m. THERE WILL
BE NO SUNDAY EVENING PRO-GRAM
THIS YEAR.
Tickets will be on sale for $1.00
each in the coffee shop next week,
from 9-12 and 1-4. They will be on
sale in limited quanities so that
there will be only one for each of
you. After next week, the price
will go up to $1.50. Having a ticket
will assure you of a place at the
performance of your choice. Whe-ther
or not you get the chair of
your choice will depend on when
you arrive at the fieldhouse.
concerto, written in 1948 by Dimi-tri
Kabalevski.
The concerto, atypical of the
music created by Soviet composers
during the Stalin regime, owes a
great deal to Mendelssohn and
calls upon both the orchestra and
solo violin to entertain rather than
provide musical profundity.
There is no admission charge for
the concert.
pooh Rebietv
The Selling of the President 1968'
U of M orchestra first concert
highlights Mozart and Kabalevski
page 6
the CLARION
Friday, October 31, 1969
Soccer team rejoices after upsetting the U of M Homecoming Day.
Soccer team upsets U of M,-
Macalester, ties St. John's
213 by Rich Zaderaka
200 This week the Royals face Bemid-
200 ji State in their final hame game
199 of the season. Bemidji has a cur-
188 rent record of 3-3-1, and if Bethel
can stay their running attack, the
outcome will be quite interesting.
Bethel battled fiercely in Satur-day's
homecoming game with
Northwestern of Iowa, but fell
short of victory by the score of
34-12.
587
510
498
86
Tuesday evening's encounter
with the Macalester soccer squads
proved to be like playing two
games. It was scheduled as a Mac
Junior Varsity game which was
obvious early in the contest.
Taking a pass from Tim Larson,
Joel Goff took a long shot from
left wing and put it over the goalies
outstretched hands for a score. A
few minutes later, Lee Granlund
scored. His next bit was a high
centering pass which Pete Wick-lund
headed in. After three goals,
it wasn't time to stop. Joel Goff
and Grandlund added their second
goals of the game.
With a five-zip deficit, Macales-ter
decided that it was time to put
in their varsity team. The rest of
the first half was a standoff, with
Bethel using subs quite freely.
In the second half, Macalester
kept pushing and finally did push
the ball into the net. But Bethel
came back quickly as Pete Wick-lund
used his head again for his
second tally.
Macalester scored a second and
final goal but the Royals kept
pushing for more. On perhaps the
most surprising and accurate kick
of the day, Joel Goff took a corner
kick and curved the ball, untouch-ed,
over the goalie into the far
corner of the net.
The 7-2 victory over Macalester
gave Bethel a 4-3-1 mark with one
game in the season remaining. The
team will take a break this week-end
and finish the season at Ham-line
on November 8.
It was a big week, but it would
have. been a mite better if we
could have defeated St. John's in-stead
of tying 1-1. St. John's was
undefeated, except for one game
against the University of Minne-sota,
and leading the MIAC until
Saturday when they were defeated
by Gustavus. However, there i s
the technical question of whether
the Royals played the JV squad or
the regular varsity. The game was
scheduled with the JV squad but
the St. John's team did not seem
to be aware of the fact.
It didn't take to long for the
Bethel team to realize that if it
was a second team, they were
probably as good as the first. But
they didn't score—at least in the
first half. And Bethel did.
Wally Borner sprung Pete Wick-lund
loose from two Jonny defend-ers
along the touchline. Wicklund
took the ball into the corner and
crossed it across the goal mouth.
The ball rolled menacingly past the
St. John's defense to the other
side where Joel Goff met it and
kicked it home.
In the second half, the Bethel
defense had a momentary lapse
and St. John's managed to sneak
the ball past the screened Jon
Nordstrom.
As neither team could dominate
the play for any length of time,
the contest was the most evenly
played game of the season. The
only problem in the game was a
St. John's fullback who seemed to
find it hard not to trip Dan An-derson.
With the 2-3-1 record, the Roy-als
then faced the University of
Minnesota last Saturday. If honest
opinions mean anything, Bethel
did not expect to win. That is, until
the game started. The University
was undefeated, usually winning
by a six goal margin. They de-feated
St. John's 6-0. So Bethel's
first goal was to not get beat as
bad as the Johnnies.
The University dominated the
the first few minutes of play, but
then, Bethel found that they could
control the ball equally well. The
U team may have been more ef-fective
in their team work but ef-fectiveness
did not mean efficiency.
i he half time came up with no
score.
By this time, the Royal team
knew they could win. The full-backs
from Minnesota kicked the
ball back to their goalie quite
often and this opened up the oppor-tunity
for a Bethel forward to get
to the ball first.
That is what happened in the
early minutes of the second half.
Lee Granlund, who has been put-ting
pressure on the goalie all
eason, reached the ball just as the
goalie did and punched the ball in-to
the corner of the goal. Then,
only a few minutes later, Pete
Wicklund got the ball on passes
from Dan Anderson and Granlund.
Wicklund put enough english on
the ball to pull the Gopher goalie
out of position as the ball rolled
into the goal.
Looking more like the team they
were supposed to be, Minnesota
dominated for the last 25 minutes.
They scored once on a corner kick
which went in off the body of a
wing who had positioned himself
right at the goal post. But thae
was their only score. They missed
an indirect kick in front of the
goal and later, missed a penalty
kick which pitted Jon Nordstom
against one Gopher kicker. The
kick was high and Bethel hung on
for the 2-1 victory against the
University of Minnesota. It was
the soccer upset of the year.
lefiameetata
Bowling Oct. 21
High Games
1.Murray Sitte
2.Harley Hansen
3.Murray Sitte
4.Jim Delich
5.Harley Hansen
High Series
1.Murray Sitte
2.Harley Hansen
3.Kent Erickson
Most Improved
1.Rich Neufeld
2.Murray Sitte
Bowling Oct. 28
High Games
1.Murray Sitte
2.Terry Leafblad
3.Kent Erickson
4.Carl Rippie
5.Murray Sitte
High Series
1.Murray Sitte
2.Terry Leafblad
3.Don White
Most Improved
1.John Zaremba
2.Carl Rippie
Standings
New Dorm I
8
Falcon I
63/4
First Floor I
6
New Dorm II
5
Off Campus 41/2
First Floor II
31/2
Pit
3
Second Old
21/4
Second New
Third New 11/4
Falcon II
0
About the soccer team's upset
of the University of Minnesota .. .
That is something that the team
can be proud of for a long time to
come—like when they have fire-side
chats with the grandchildren.
It's a real feather in their cap;
and a victory like that will throw a
lot of weight when a decision has to
be reached at the bargaining tables
as to whether or not soccer should
be recognized as a major sport
at Bethel College. The game was
also a bright spot in an otherwise-winless
homecoming w e e k e n d.
However, one student commented,
"If Lee Granlund can score a goal
on the University of Minnesota,
then the Gopher's soccer team
can't be very good." Mr. Granlund
was not available for comment.
* * *
And while we're on the subject
of character annihilation, there's
just the slightest whisper of a ru-mor
that certain people (both fac-ulty
and students) are taking some
things that were said in the Clarion
last week personally.
They feel that undue criticism
has been lowered upon the music
department, and that anyone who
would either read or write such
blasphemy is immature and in-articulate.
Well, it seems to me that the
immature label could just as easily
be handed back to them because it
is usually an immature person who
is afraid to take a good hard look
at himself (in this case, at his de-partment).
Now, all of a sudden, it's a crime
to place a fraction of the school in
the public's scrutinizing eye, and
a "lynch mob" is being organized to
bring back proper respect by
stretching the necks of a couple of
editors. Paranoid fear has broken
loose, and I'm wondering what all
the fuss is about. Could somebody
be hiding something?
* * *
The Royals have just scored
their second touchdown, and the
Bethel started another drive la-ter,
but time ran out while Dave
score is 13-12 in favor of North-western
(Iowa). What to do? shall
we kick for the extra point and
try for a tie, or should we run
one across and by getting the two
points take the lead, 14-13?
Well, as those of you who were
at Saturday's Homecoming game
know, Coach Shields sent Cal Har-fst
the kicker, in for the one
point kick attempt which failed.
There were many and varied com-ments
about this situation, and the
sum total of these look like so:
"Why should a team who has only
won one game (and that two years
ago) in three years settle for a tie?
Wasn't the team running the
ball very well, and if so, why not
go for two points and a win? With
all respect for Cal Harfst, the odds
for running the ball over were
much greater than for kicking it
over.
How did the coach know whe-ther
there would be any more
scoring in the game or not?
Wouldn't a tie be something less
than meaningfull? (Doesn't this
show that after three years of
losing, the spirit to win has left
the coaching staff?) . . . and there
were others. Of course, the game
did not finally hinge upon this
situation since Northwestern scored
again, but it does give one cause
to pause . . .
On the other hand, a look at the
team effort during the entire game
is evidence of the fact that they
want to win; and the seeming
tactical error on Coach Shields'
part might be interpreted as his
having confidence that the Royals
would score • again and win. The
possibilities for speculation are
endless.
* * *
Finally, in the Bethel Duel Pis-tol
competition, the earley results
just in show Steve Hanson with
an unbelievable 2-1 victory over
Grassf ace .
Pound wrestled a Raider defen-sive
man for a pass near the 20
yard line.
The Raiders struck quickly in the
second half, scoring on a 72 yard
run around end by punter John
Camp after a fumbled snap from
center.
Bethel matched that touchdown
with a six yard run by Sitte, but
once again the try for the extra
point was unsuccessful.
In the fourth quarter, the Royal
defense lost its aggressiveness.
Northwestern scored three times,
to make the final margin 34-12.
The Royals offensive momentum
was hindered by seven fumbles,
four of which were recovered by
Northwestern. The Raider defen-sive
secondary also picked off two
passes.
Gary Hasselblad, who made
several unassisted, open-field tack-les
and Pete Roemer, who inter-cepted
a pass and recovered a fum-ble,
were standouts on defense.
Perry Johnson and Larry Van Epps
were once again the high men on
the tackle chart.
The Column
by Tim Weko
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179
636
560
483
136 pins
93 pins
53 An exciting kickoff return by
Jeff Knighton to start the game
had an indication of the kind of
battle it was to be. The Royals
took the lead in the second quarter,
scoring on a dive play by Murray
Sitte, from just inches outside the
goal line. The touchdown capped
a 75 yard drive, featuring strong
efforts from Dave Pound, Barry
Anderson, Bob Olsen and Sitte.
Northwestern tied the game how-ever,
on an 82 yard punt return
by Dave Meylink, and took the lead
on the successful conversion at-tempt.
Royals defeated
by Northwestern

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Vol. XLV—No. 9
Bethel College, St. Paul Minn. Friday, October 31, 1969
Black, white college administrators
study finances, admissions concept
tem to assure that at least a certain
number of blacks would be admit-ted.
Some of the blacks in attendance
criticized ACE for having not a
single black administrator among
continued on page 2
The goblins will get you at the
spook-out in the cafeteria tonight.
In the words of Bill Painter, senior
and organizer of this year's Hallo-ween
Party. The get-together to-night
in the cafeteria will be a
"groovy thing".
"We want kids to go out trick-or-
treating before they come to
the party, so they will be dressed
in costumes," says Painter. Alumni
and faculty are invited to come
for social interaction on a lighter
side in the Bethel Community.
John Larson, junior, is recruit-ing
likely-looking spooks for the
Edgren spook house. The senicr
class, under the leadership of
Bruce Otto, will sell slaves to the
highest bidders. Faculty, as well
as student, bodies will be sold.
WASHINGTON—(CPS) — While
almost 2,000 white college presi-dents
and top administrators were
studying "The Campus and Racial
Crisis," 111 black college presidents
were forming their own structure
to deal with crises particular to
their campuses.
All of the administrators were
in Washington October 8-10 for the
annual meeting of the American
Council on Education (ACE).
The black presidents revealed
plans during the meeting for their
new group which will be called
"The Organization of Black Colle-ges"
until a permanent name is de-cided
upon.
The organization is not intended
to be divorced from white schools
or from the total educational pic-ture,
according to Vivian Hender-son,
president of Atlanta's Clark
College and chairman of the new
group. Member presidents will re-tain
their membership in the ACE.
"We are committed to the im-mediate
goal of racial integration
in American life," said President
Martin Jenkins of Morgan State
College.
Henderson said the primary goal
of the group is to influence legis-lation
at all levels of government,
particularly to gain a greater share
of the resources set aside for
higher education for predominantly
black colleges.
"We're in a position of reacting
to legislation rather than influen-cing
its input. We just don't be-lieve
the government can ignore
any longer the counseling, insight,
advice, and long experience we as
black educators have developed,"
Henderson said. "While we do not
believe there is anything racially
exclusive about certain aspects of
the educational process, we know
we have developed certain under-standings
and insights that a per-son
cannot develop from afar."
"The whole spectrum of higher
education is not in the best state.
The small colleges have more prob-lems
than the large universities.
And the small black colleges are
having even a greater (financial)
crisis," Henderson said.
In a separate session President
Herman R. Branson, from Ohio's
black Central State College, called
for "tithing" from white colleges
to black colleges. "Maybe the two
H's in higher education, Harvard
and Howard, can get together. Har-vard
could give Howard one-tenth
of its gifts."
Branson noted that Harvard Uni-versity
can get more financial gifts
annually than the entire United
Negro College Fund.
"The need is great; the neglect
is even greater," Branson said.
"Families that make less than
$8,000 a year can't send a child to
college."
The number of drop-outs at Cen-tral
State last year equaled the
total drop-out figure at Harvard,
Brandeis, MIT and the main cam-pus
of the University of Virginia,
he said. "Most of those at Central
State dropped out for financial
reasons."
Jenkins, speaking with Hender-son,
said, "If the nation is to main-tain
its sanity, these institutions
(black colleges) are going to have
to be used as an essential and im-portant
national resource."
The black presidents maintained
that while their colleges as well as
white colleges must and are be-coming
integrated, there always
will be a role for their colleges to
help educate Americans. Their col-leges
will not die with integrated
education, they said.
At the moment they said their
colleges are extremely vital to the
education of blacks. Nearly half of
the black students in college are
at predominantly black institutions,
while most of the predominantly
white colleges are less than two
per cent black.
Alexander Astin, director of the
Office of Research of the American
Council on Education, said it does
no good for schools to fight over
which one gets the most success-ful
black students, because fighting
for the cream of the crop does not
increase the base number of black
students getting a college educa-tion
Astin said a "lottery" system of
admission, random selection from
all those in the community who
want to attend a college, is the
only democratic way to give all
groups an equal chance at educa-tion.
Admissions criteria should be
abandoned, he said. Astin had pre-viously
favored a black quota sys-
IC3, an association of the seven
Twin City colleges (Bethel, Ham-line,
Macalester, St. Thomas, St.
Catherine, Concordia, and Augs-burg)
is attempting to rise above
a previous record of uselessness.
This year's Committee is re-evaluating
its purpose and func-tion.
Representatives from the col-leges
have met regularly since Sep-tember
and are currently pursuing
goals of common interest. Repre-sentitives
Denny Olson and Arne
Bergstrom report that IC3 is now
functioning as a resource center
so that problems, issues, and situa-tions
which are common to private
small liberal arts colleges may be
dealt with on a larger basis.
The resources at a single small
liberal arts college are usually not
large enough to deal with major
problems confronting education
and the community today. It is
IC3's purpose, therefore, to unite
the potential resources of the col-leges
and function as a touchstone
for educational and community
affairs.
An information pool on all seven
colleges of student leaders, com-mittees,
faculty committees, stu-dent
government and interested
students is being gathered at a
common resource center. It is oper-ated
by a part-time coordinator
hired by IC3, Mark Vaught, a grad-uate
of Macalester College. He is
compiling the information into a
"workable structure."
To add to the atmosphere of the
evening, Bob Olsen, football coach
and Bethel alumnus, will tell a
ghost story. Ghosts will also be pre-sented
during the showing of an
old time flick, The Live Ghost.
Musical entertainment will be
furnished by the Bo Conrad Spit
Band, playing in the unequivical
manner which has warmed the
hearts and cleared the heads of
so many Bethel students.
Various booths will be set up
and contests will be held. Rented
from Minnesota Moorlane, a busi-ness
featuring carnival materials,
the booths include such carnival
games as Flip the Cat, Panda Bear
Toss, Bean Bag Toss, Cane Toss,
and Dart throw.
There will also be apple bobbing
The first result of the resource
center is an information telephone
number. Each Friday, students may
call 699-0988 between 12:00 noon
and 7:00 p.m. to get information on
what is happening at any of the
colleges. Information on lectures,
plays, concerts, sporting events
and dances will be available. In this
way, IC3 hopes to serve the college
communities on a larger social
level.
Expanding the resource idea and
applying it toward educational re-form,
IC3 is planning a symposi
to study the possibilities of course
sharing amoung the seven colleges.
Here again the size of the colleges
can limit the effectiveness in all
areas and by sharing on an equal
basis each college's strong points,
the student can benefit from an
expanded resourse base. One can
see the advantage particularly in
the physical sciences where the
sharing of expensive equipment
would be valuable.
The operating budget of IC3
comes from monies which the stu-dent
governments budget to IC3.
Each school is taxed according to
its population. The budget is used
to help reach goals of common
interest. Besides the resource pool,
IC3 also enables students to travel
abroad at much reduced prices.
IC3 exists for the purpose of
serving the college communities in
the Twin Cities. The individual
student is the final benefactor in
any of the IC3 activities and it is
from the students that IC3 gets the
ideas for services.
and a kissing booth. (No relation
between the two.) Thus far, Julie
Amelsburg has volunteered to
serve in the kissing booth.
Also, a pie-eating contest and a
shaving cream fight will be staged
to help create chuckles. These
events are strictly for guys. (Sorry
girls).
It'll cost two bits to get into the
bash. Tickets for individual games
(10 cents a turn) can be bought at
the ticket booth as you come in the
door. Three prizes will be given
for the best costumes.
"We want kids to have a really
good time when they get together
in an informal social event," Paint-er
summarized. "The party isn't
necessarily a date deal, but if you
want to bring a date, that's fine."
IC3 coordinates
private colleges
`Spook-out' tonight is planned to be 'groovy thing'
Halloween brings spooks, pumpkins, and other things.
"I keep tellin' ya, man, the end of the war
• is just around the corner."
360'4
Ohio Post--CPS
page 2
the CLARION Friday, October 31, 1969
Satisfy emotional hunger
through Jesus commune
Psychology and sociology textbooks declare that man is a "social
creature" and the lack of social contact can reduce man to the level
of animal. Therefore one can assume that man has two choices: he
can exist inside himself (i.e. in his head) with as little contact as possible,
or he can be the "social creature" the social scientist insists he must be.
I have been led to believe that I have been living most of my
life as a "social creature," yet I find myself always alone. I concluded
that the psychologists and sociologists were wrong and we must live
alone. Deciding to go all the way, I began to totally live inside my head.
The step from "social creature" to isolation was indeed a small one.
Gone was the toothy smile, the phoney greetings, and trite hot air
(a better term for conversation) and I was alone. I slowly began to
lose my mind after two weeks, but I hung on hoping for some great
experience in human existence. Animals are nice, but I wouldn't want
to be one.
I began to realize that society's standard of "social creature" and
isolation were for most purposes the same thing. Let's face it, we all
make lousy animals. I then decided to go to the other extreme ,as much
as I was capable). When someone asked, "How are you?", I stopped
and told them exactly how I felt and I asked them exactly how they
felt.
Suddenly I discovered people were avoiding me because maybe I
could see behind the toothy grin and see real emptiness. Now I was back
to where I started — isolated, but from the opposite direction. I had
discovered a massive isolationism alive and well everywhere.
How and where did it come from? It had to be from the people
themselves, but something was selling it and selling it hard. The insti-tutions,
they teach isolation and practice it — the schools, businesses,
government, and yes, even the church. Even though institutions are
made up of people, now the institutions are controlling the people.
But the most frightening thing of all was the way they would eliminate
anyone who tried to break the isolationism.
Here is where I had to go to Jesus for "strength" (more nice words
for "I need help, Jesus"). But emotional "starvation" is suffered by
humans and only humans can correct it. I read in the New Testament
and saw how the early Christians were able to live as wholly "social
creatures" through the love of God. Their society and institutions
would not let them exists on a Jesus-level (hadn't they eliminated him?)
so they banded together for existence in what we call a commune and
what they called a church. Their church was a 24 hour a day, seven
days a week living-worship experience, not a two hour once a week
social gathering.
The idea creeps into my head — a Jesus commune, not for isolation
but for existence as whole "social creatures". "Stay and change it" jumps
into my head, but once you taste and satisfy some of the emotional
hunger you want complete satisfaction.
Jesus told the woman at the well she will never hunger or thirst
if she takes the living bread and water, but why are we hungry, why
do we thirst? How can one who has not tasted know the taste?
Must I stand alone against the actions of dehumanized, isolationist
institutions (and the people who make them up) or will others admit
their hunger and defeat the now victorious institutions?
Arne Bergstrom, class of '70
Oaffiti
Men are trapped in their own creations.
People everywhere just gotta be free.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Sun King is coming.
I shall be released.
Listening is loving.
Power to the people.
Bread to the birds.
You are sane, the world is crazy.
Must communication, discussion
be crisis situation phenomena?
The editorial of the October 24 issue of the Clarion apparently
stimulated quite a little discussion on campus. That was what it was
meant to do.
As I sat one morning in discussion of the editorial and some of
the issues it brought to focus, my mind wandered to previous editorials
this semester. Generally they have been of a philosophical nature — no
personalities involved, their substance being greatly ideas rather than
persons.
In spite of the fact that the ideas presented through the editorials
could not possibly be congruous with the thinking of many on campus,
there were no reactions, and as far as I could tell no discussion.
A prime example of the situation is the editorial in the September
19 issue of the Clarion which challenged inconsistencies in the Annual
Address of the President. A few days after the paper came out, I was
over to see the President. The Clarion was discussed, but though I
waited, the word editorial was not even mentioned.
The comparison in reactions between the other editorials, the
September one in particular, and last week's editorial seem to lead
to the question: must a "scandal" be created before communication can
take place or; why do people fail to communicate until a crisis situation
arises. Perhaps communication could prevent crisis situations?
Present rate of troop withdrawal
from Vietnam will take 294 years
WASHINGTON—(CPS)—the offi-cial
Petagon figures for the num-ber
of U.S. troops in Vietnam for
the last six weeks show a with-drawal
rate that would get the
U.S. out of Vietnam in 294 years.
The net withdrawal figure in the
six weeks between August 31 and
October 2 shows a reduction of
200 men.
fax
by Tom Ford
"THE LEOPARD-SPOT SOLUTION"
The first major alternative to the policy of Vietnamizing the war
is the "stand-still cease-fire" proposal of former Paris negotiator Cyrus
Vance. Basically this "Leopard-spot" settlement would mean an immedi-ate
end to all fighting and a withdrawal of United States and North
Vienamese forces as swiftly as possible.
Both sides would accept the control the other has over the South
Vietnamese countryside. Both sides would remain in possession of their
present territory though the country of South Vietnam would not be
physically partitioned, two separate structures of government would
coexist within the nation.
After the withdrawal of foreign troops, the South Vietnamese and
the Viet Cong's National Liberation Front would each establish a gov-ernment
over the land and people they held. Both governments would
agree to allow the free flow of trade, people, and even unarmed soldiers
from one zone to another. Enforcement of this agreement would be
left in the hands of a United Nations police force.
This working agreement would provide the springboard for a
possible coalition government and the reunification of the South. The
agreement could, given a chance, go on for long enough a time for the
sides to reach a lasting settlement.
It is important to realize that a "Leopard-spot settlement would
only be temporary. It is a cooling-off stage in which both sides could let
their hostilities subside and during which some semblance of order
could be restored to the South.
There are many advantages to this plan. First, the fighting would
come to an end before a final settlement is reached, saving countless
lives. Neither side would be forced to give up what it now holds in
order to bring about a cease-fire.
Secondly, the United States could take itself out of the war without
doing serious harm to its national prestige,—a major concern to the
men in Washington. There would be no winners or losers. The war
would end as a stalemate.
There are serious shortcomings to this plan, however. A very
similar situation existed with the British partition of the Palestine
Mandate. The various zones of the Hebrew State were surrounded by
the Arab state of Jordan. True to this pattern, there would probably be
a great deal of agitation on both sides to make a lightning stroke to
liquidate the other side.
Another major shortcoming would be the ability of a U.N. police
force to keep the area free of combat. The hatreds that have been
created by two decades of warfare will not subside very easily. Related
to this has been the reluctance of the U.N. to have anything to do
with the Vietnamese question. Will the U.N. fill this void now when it
has refused in the past?
In conclusion, it is worthy to note that such a cease-fire settlement
would prevent the blood bath many Americans fear will happen if
we pull out. It gives Vietnam a chance to stabilize and allows for a
settlement made without warfare.
And, as I. F. Stone's Weekly
pointed out October 20, the U.S.
has reductd its troop level by only
400 since the Tet Offensive in Feb-rurary,
1968—nineteen months ago.
At that time the U.S. had 510,000
men in Vietnam; early this month
the U.S. still had 509,600 men in
Vietnam.
Admissions .. .
continued from page 1
its 25 officers. And Elizabeth Den-erson
Scobell, assistant librarian
from predominantly black West
Virginia State College, told the del-egates
to listen to youth. "You are
white, male, and over 30—that's
middle aged in youth circles," she
told the administrators. "Yet youth,
those under 25, are becoming the
majority of the population." It's
time to listen to what they want
their eductaton and society to be,
she said.
ebapei Pott5
by Pastor Maurice C. Lawson
"Sex Morality in the Scriptures
and in Our Times" will be Dr.
Al Glenn's subject on Monday when
he presents the second in his Mon-day
series on the theme "Christian
Morality." Tuesday will be a time
of sharing. The chapel hour will
be thrown open for anyone to
come with a testimony or a re-quest
for prayer support. "How
Jesus Won Sinners" will be the
campus pastor's topic on Wednes-day,
with NEW music.
One of our first year students
from Thailand, "Vacharee ("Jeed")
Sriswad, will tell of her conversion
from Buddhism to Christianity and
will show pictures of her home-land
on Thursday. The week of
emphasis on personal Christian ex-perience
will come to an end on
Friday when student testimonies
will be given — one by a student,
recently saved, whose vocation was
a night club musician, another by
a missionary's son who has now
received an appointment himself
by the mission and to the field in
which his father serves.
the CLARION
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periods, by the students of Bethel
College, St. Paul, Minn. 55101. Sub-scription
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Copy Editors Toni Magnuson
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Opinions expressed in the CLARION do
not necessarily reflect the position of the
college or seminary.
Friday, October 31, 1969
the CLARION page 3
October 24 Clarion provokes reaction
Second Vietnam petition shows Alumnus tells students to be agressive
misunderstanding of Bethel stand
questions wisdom of working on
To the editor:
An article in the October 24
issue of the Clarion shows a basic
lack of understanding of the Viet-nam
Moratorium as it applied to
our college campus. The article
mentioned a petition which was
circulated to "affirm our confi-dence
in the U.S. government's ex-pressed
intention and active work
to establish a peaceful settlement
of the war at the Paris Conference
Table . . ." With this second peti-tion
I have no quarrel, but the arti-cle
also stated that Mr. Rolland
Shearer and Dr. Arthur Lewis were
dissatisfied with the first petition
because "the overtones . . . were
anti-government." Later on, the ar-ticle
again said that Mr. Shearer
realized that there is a lot more
to be accompilshed, but that the
". .. Moratorium day should not
have had an anti-government em-phasis."
The sine qua non of an open
society is open discussion of issues
in the market place of public opin-ion.
Certainly an academic com-munity
ought to accept the premise
of a free and open discussion, ac-cepting
the fact that disagreement
will result, without one segment
attempting to impugn the motives
or patriotism of the other. The
"hawk" and "dove" positions date
back to an earlier era and dissent
regarding the war should not now
To the editor:
Although I (along with the ma-jority
of "timid bookish parasites"
in the music department) was per-haps
justifiably upset with articles
appearing in the latest Clarion, I
would like to direct comments to
only a few points from the edi-torial.
First of all, the issue of repre-senting
the Bethel community.
Just who is it that best represents
Bethel cultural attitudes—the mu-sic
department or the Clarion? The
music department stands for a
type of cultural expression that has
proven through the years to com-municate
most effectively to an
enormously large number of peo-ple.
But does this type of music
tell "where Bethel is at?"
The students are the school and
the majority of students are not in
the music department and for
various reasons do not agree with
its ideas or aesthetics. For example,
following the concert presented in
chapel by the woodwind quintet
from the St. Paul Philharmonic
Chamber Orchestra, I overheard a
sophomore boy say, "Now, that
was a waste of time. I mean, they
played good and everything, but
it was just a waste." It was gen-erally
agreed by both student and
faculty in the music department
that this same concert that was
"a waste of time" to some was
one of the finest concerts we have
had on campus.
It therefore appears that the
music department does not reflect
the cultural interest of Bethel
students. Unfortuantely, the Clarion
does. If the music department is to
fairly represent Bethel, maybe it
would be advisable for tour groups
to take along copies of the Clarion
in order for prospective students
to see both the music department
and the real Bethel.
The editorial suggested to me
that the writer felt that the music
be construed as something which
has been invented to plague the
Nixon administration.
Many on the college campus
chose not to sign any petitions,
attend teach-ins, or participate in
the numerous activities scheduled
for that evening throughout the
Twin Cities. That was their privi-lege
and no further comment is
necessary. The college president,
however, stated that our campus
had joined in this nation-wide ex-pression
of concern and he then
listed the activities scheduled for
that day. The subsequent disclaim-er
by the campus pastor regarding
chapel did not necessarily negate
his statements. Our campus, there-fore,
was involved.
If the Republican Party can main-tain
a place for a man like Senator
Hatfield, in spite of his anti-Viet-nam
stand, then perhaps our cam-pus
should likewise encourage dis-sent
without having to revert to
the worn-out arguments expressed
in None Dare Call It Treason. That
book, incidentally, took a true anti-government
stance, but I recom-mended
its dissemination notwith-standing.
If we want our evangeli-calism
to be a penetrating force
in our present society, we have to
stop pretending that we can ig-nore
issues and they will go away.
James E. Johnson
Professor of History
department was doing the school
a gross disservice by sending choral
and instrumental groups on tour.
Since these groups do not ade-quately
say what Bethel is really
like, the most obvious conclusion
seems to be that all music tours
should be discontinued. Along with
tours, maybe we should also drop
the Festival of Christmas. Of
course, I am being somewhat fa-cetious.
In talking with people who are
not sufficiently acquaintel with
Bethel, I have found that many
think of Bethel on two points. One
is the fanatical, out-of-it type of
ultra-religious school. On a return
trip from California last Easter, I
sat next to the assistant chaplain
from a nearby college. 'He express-ed
this type of knowledge of Bethel
by derisively asking of Bethel was
"s till determined to save the
world." He seemed to think we
have a school of fanatical "holy
rollers." I doubt if this is the image
we really want.
On the positive side, many peo-ple
know of Bethel only because
of the Festival of Christmas. Whe-ther
or not the various departments
(including of course, music) in-volved
represent the real Bethel
to those who come only because
they have heard about the program
is not an issue. Festival of Christ-mas
(as are music tours) is an ef-fective
means of witness to the out-side
world.
So we have both negative and
positive images. The latter being at
least partly advanced by the music
department. (Incidentally, it is not
the purpose of tours to recruit
students. That is merely an im-portant
by-product..)
Why did this issue ever come up
anyway? It seems as though it was
brought out largely by members
of the music faculty. I am sure a
good share of the student body
feels is was done because the music
faculty (and music students) feel
Editor's note: Since Mr. Stolpe's
graduation from Bethel in 1969,
he has joined the national staff
of Christian Service Brigade and
is now managing editor of Bri-gade
Leader Magazine.
To the editor:
It has become increasingly obvi-ous
that no single group of faculty
or students (even the music de-partment)
can fairly represent the
sentiments and nature of the Beth-el
student community, much less
control it. No amount of lecture in
Fine Arts, discussion in faculty
meetings or anger in the Clarion
will alter the listening habits of
Bethel students or relieve their
frustrations with "traditional
church music."
Since moving to Illinois, I have
seen music play a major part in
renewing the students of our con-gregation,
and it was contemporary
music, with a "beat." There was
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newspaper
they have all the answers and
wish to impose their ideas upon
everybody else. Whether or not we
musicians do or not have all the
answers is not as important as
whether or not these answers are
forced on others.
I am positive the issues were
brought up because the faculty is
concerned and wants each student
to think it out for himself with
fair advantage given to all sides.
I think I know the music faculty
well enough to know this is true.
In a choral conducting class, Dr.
Berglund once said that he did not
want any student coming out of
Bethel looking like a little Berg-lund
or little Whitinger or a little
anybody else. He was speaking
specifically about style and tech-nique
in conducting, but more
broadly, he was saying that we
should think for ourselves and de-cide
what is right for us and not
accept anything just because some-body
else thinks a particular way.
Now, isn't that the purpose of a
college education?
Now, for the real crux of this
letter in my own thinking. I was
contacted some time ago by Dr.
Berglund concerning the writing of
music reviews for the Clarion and
I agreed to do so. Subsequently,
the Clarion news editor talked to
me and it was determined that I
would attend a concert by the Min-nesota
Orchestra on October 31 and
write a review for the next week's
issue. Now, following the state-ments
found in the October 24 Clar-ion,
I am questioning myself con-cerning
the wisdom of working on
the staff of a paper that is obvious-ly
not in close agreement with what
I hold to be true. Would I really be
doing a service to the student
body? Or would I be working a-gainst
myself, my musical beliefs,
and the entire music department?
I am not sure that I know.
Jay Swisher '70
no "show" for them, simply a me-dium
that spoke Christ meaning-fully
into their lives. "Traditional
church music" had been a serious
block to their spiritual develop-ment,
but a little "folk," a little
"beat" became the first step in
their discovery of a meaningful
Chirst. This all happened without
alienating even one of the "over
30." All had come to realize that
two cultures are at most different,
not superior or inferior, even gen-erational
cultures.
However, Bethel has a public
Student defends
To the editor:
I am writing in regard to the
blind condemnation of the entire
music department in the Friday,
October 24th Clarion. It seems to
me that the editor of our All-Amer-ican
newspaper could document
her accusations with facts rather
than obviously erroneous opinions
concerning the music students and
faculty.
In the first place, It was stated
that the image presented by stu-dens
in musical organizaions is a
distorted image of the Bethel com-munity.
There are over 200 mem-bers
involved in the touring groups.
To say that all of these, or even
the majority are unfit to convey
"Where Bethel is at" is simply an
unfounded accusation.
I would be the first to admit
that I am not a spiritual giant on
this campus, but my purpose in
being in music is to serve Christ
in the best possible way according
to the desires and abilities which
He has given me. I have experienc-ed
more spiritual growth in College
Choir because of the music we have
sung and the influence of the ma-ture
spiritual thinking of fellow
choir members and Dr. Robert
Berglund, than in any other single
phase of my college life. I know
that this is also true of many other
members of College Choir and all
of the other groups.
Why is it necessary, then to
condemn our spiritual influence
because our avenue of self-expres-sion,
and our level of musical ap-preciation
and understanding is
different from the so-called typical
Bethel student?
The second possibility statel was
that music students are perhaps
the "timid, bookish parasites" on
campus. If any research had been
done to find out exactely who
music students are, the inquirer
would have readily found out how
ridiculous this line of thinking is.
Involved in the music program are
students who are active partici-pants
if all facets of Bethel society.
It isn't hard to find examples of
leaders, atheletes and scholars who
are also fine musicians. A study
of last year's Who's Who list re-veals
that one third of the 25 who
were elected were involved some
way in music. Out of 16 class of-ficers,
eight were in music in some
form.
In the past two graduating class-es,
one of the top two students
has been a musician. Musical or-ganizations
have helped supply the
Homecoming and Sno-Daze Courts
relations problem; it must attract
students while pleasing their par-ents
and pastors. Who will form
the image of the "Bethel student?"
To distort that image in the name
of public relations or "taste" in
music is dishonest. Students, it is
your image; it is your responsi-bility
to gressively form it your-selves.
As we stand on the verge
of a new reformation, don't let
anyone rip the guts out of it by
killing music.
Norman Stolpe '69
Musical groups
with many beautiful young ladies
for years and significantly six of
the twelve student missionaries
last summer were involved in per-forming
organizations. Could these
outstanding individuals possibly be
representatives of the "d e a d
weight" of the campus? I am in no
way trying to slight those indivi-duals
who are actively involved in
Bethel life but not in music, but I
am merely pointing out that fact
that the music department not
only attracts the persons who accu-rately
represent Bethel life, but
those who represent the best that
Bethel has to offer.
I feel strongly that the Bethel
music department, under the very
capable musical and spiritual lea-dership
of its faculty members, is
making not only a significant con-tribution
to the daily campus life,
but is performing a relavant min-istry
to the outside world through
music.
I would hope that in the future
the Clarion would refrain from
comdemning the music department
and displaying its obvious lack of
musical and personal understand-ing.
A high level of excellence is
being achieved in music and a
great deal of self-dicipline and
hard work is involved in arriving as
such a level. Rather than doubting
our motivation and achievements,
it would be wise to allow our spor-itual
and personal lives be judged
by God alone.
Within the choral program alone
there are three seperate ministeries
performed, each appeals to a dif-ferent
type of people. Our musical
ministery is not to hippies, but
this does'nt mean we don't min-ister.
Everyone in in need of Christ
not just hippies.
Perhaps those people who feel
so strongly about the lack of rel-evance
of the music department
•would reconsider their position and
concern themselves with the best
way for them to serve. If my in-terests
and desires are right be-tween
God and myself, there is no
reason for any other individual to
doubt that my actions are proper.
I trust that God will continue to
abundantly bless our department,
and that people will not only be-come
interested in Bethel because
of it, but will be won to Christ.
Lynette Port '71
Music student not in agreement with Clarion
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J. Leonard Carroll, Pastor
C. Bruce Anderson, Asst. Pastor
BUS LEAVES EACH SUNDAY: 9:25 A.M. and 6:40 P.M.
Verdeeleat Safttea eletreic‘
Bus Stops at Bodien — 9:15 a.m.
Small Bus for Evening Service — 6:30 p.m.
Pastor—Robert Featherstone
Assistant Pastor—Bill Malam
page 4 the CLARION Friday, October 31, 1969
Faculty members report on sabbatical
Dear editor:
I understand that the new Alumni
director—who is a personal friend
and whose appointment I applaud
—was, however, hired without con-sultation
with the Alumni Council.
I also understand that the Alumnus
of the Year, a man I do not know
and have no reason to suspect as
undeserving of the honor, was
chosen in direct opposition to
written policy outlined by the
Alumni Council when the concept
initiated. (The Alumni are to be
polled and are to do the choosing.
I and other Alumni had no voice
in this supposedly Alumni choice.)
But these are merely symptoms
of the fact that, as far as I can
surmise, the Alumni Council is no
more than a figurehead represent-ing
thousands of Bethel Alumni
To the editor:
This is prehaps not the place to
quote Harry Emerson Fosdick, who
once said something like this:
Christianity is like good music: it
is meant to be played not defended.
Who ever heard of the members of
a great symphony leaving their
chairs, instruments in hand, and
walking up and down the aisles,
beating patrons on the head saying,
"This is good music! This is good
music!"
who are viewed as no more than a
pool for financial support—Alumni
who, if they felt great identity with
Bethel, would give energetic verb-al
support, would send outstanding
students and quality athletes and
actors and debaters and singers
to "their school" (as well as more
money).
In a time when my school needs
to mobilize all its resources in
order to continue making signifi-cant
contributions to students, com-munity
and the Faith, I believe it
is cutting itself off from me and
thousands of others like me. I
care about Bethel College. Other
alumni care too. Can we give the
Alumni Council some identity and
power? Are there other alumni
out there who feel as I do?
Phil Bolinder
It is perhaps more appropriate to
quote William Penn: "Truth often
suffers more from the heat of its
defenders than from the arguments
of its opposers."
My own suggestion is that the
music department continue to de-fent
their "good music" and that
the pop fans continue to play
theirs.
Donald N. Larson
Social Science Dept. head
Professor of Anthropology
by Dave Shupe
Retracing the travels of an evan-gelist
through rural England, tour-ing
the art galleries of Italy, and
translating German plays were a-mong
the activities of Bethel facul-ty
taking sabbatical leaves last
year.
James Johnson, Professor of His-tory,
Robert Clark Nelson, Assis-tant
Professor of Art, and Dale
Rott, Assistant Professor of Speech,
all chose projects of particular in-terest
to them for the year's time.
James Johnson divided his sab-batical
into two areas of interest.
During the fall and winter, Johnson
was able to open up a new area of
study, social welfare of the twen-tieth
century. During these months
he did primary research at the
Social Welfare Archives at the
University of Minnesota. He re-searched
elsewhere in New York
City, where the earliest charity
organizations were founded, and in
James Johnson
Robert Nelson
Washington D.C. at the Health,
Education and Welfare Archives.
He hopes to write a book on child
welfare,
In April, Johnson traveled to
England to continue his study of
Charles G. Finney, Presbyterian
itinerant revivalist, who himself
traveled to Englend in the 1850's
on two evangelistic campaigns.
Johnson studied at the British
Museum, then followed Finney's
path through the British Isles, at
each town studying records of the
impact made by the evangelist. At
Houghton, England, Johnson spoke
in the same pulpit from which
Finney first preached in England.
Johnson and his wife concluded the
year by driving through continental
Europe.
Robert Clark Nelson divided his
time between part-time teaching
at Bethel and a number of other
accomplishments: 131 art pieces
produced six exhibitions, 36 books
read, seven conferences, 13 lec-tures,
five weeks of travel, and
three shows with lights, two of
them included with jazz masses.
Especially notable were his first
prize award in painting at the 1968
Minnesota State Fair, his tours of
art galleries in New York and Italy,
and his art design project for
Viterbo College, La Crosse, Wis-consin.
Dale Rott also spent some time
at Bethel, primarily working on
the Christmas production, Amahl
and the Night Visitors, while con-tinuing
his advanced graduate
work. Such work included his lan-guage
requirement for his Ph. D.,
and preparation for his written
exams, which he will be taking
shortly. Rott translated numerous
German texts, including plays.
These, he said, gave him a feeling
of the culture of the German peo-ple.
Much of his research was done
on his farm north of the Cities.
Dale Rott
Bethel Forum
Alumnus feels alienated
Christianity is like good music;
meant to be played, not defended
Benson seen as replacement for
Gen. Hershey in Selective Service
Thievery climbs, gains attention
Paul Resnick, editor of the cam-pus
newspaper, says that "Benson
was very conservative, but he was
always fair and honest. Students
had a lot of respect for him."
When Benson first came to Clare-mont
in 1946, CMC had not yet
opened its doors and assets were
ness than $50,000. When he left
this September, there were 800 stu-dents
and assets had climbed to $25
million. CMC is frequently recog-nized
as one of the 10 bets inde-pendent
men's colleges in the coun-try.
Benson long favored cracking
down on students, and while Ben-son
never did hand out overly pu-nitive
sentences, he made it clear
he wished he could. Speaking last
May, he looked back over his ca-reer:
"Students have changed, and
there's been a shift in the balance
of power. 15 years ago, if we heard
there was a threat of a panty raid,
I'd go out and could tell the stu-dents
`If you go down to the wo-men's
dorm, I'll throw you out.'
"Now the President is reduced
to something like a political leader.
He can't suspend or expel students.
It goes through a faculty-student
tribunal.
"The faculty has more power,
and until the faculties stiffen up,
the disruption on campuses will
continue. It's a question of tough-ness.
You know, do you have back-bone."
Despite the fact that he holds a
Ph. D. in Political Science, and
taught at Harvard, Chicago, Michi-gan
and Northwestern, faculties
never were among his favorite
groups. In December, 1948, having
been president of CMC for over
two years, Benson waded into the
fight over communism on the cam-pus,
issuing something less than a
ringing defense of academic free-dom.
"Most professors are not red.
Few of them are consciously pink.
But many, perhaps most of them,
have encouraged student pinkness
by failing to stress the more sig-nificant
values of the American
tradition.
"Much of Europe's present dif-ficulties
are due to the thorough
permeation jApf the intellectuals
with Marxist ideas. Although few
seditious professors have been
turned up by the Committee on Un-
American Activities, its list of sus-pects
have certainly included a sub-stantial
unmber of highly educated
men and women."
Benson went on to stress the
academic failure to present a pos-itive
view of American civilization,
noting that many professors pre-sented
American democracy as just
one of several forms of govern-ment.
"And too often," Benson contin-lued,
"the professor keeps right on
professing, year in and year out,
without muddying his feet in the
swamp of practicality. This leads
to a lack of realism in my academic
bretheren, which often leads to
leftism."
Lectism never infected Benson,
and he did his best to keep it away
from his college. In 1958, he ex-plained
that, "We have the great-est
system mankind has developed
—individual freedom. That's why
here at CMC we try to teach poli-tics
and business policy together;
in other words, political economy in
a free society."
Businessmen have long been
Benson's favorite group, one which
he hoped wiuld oppose the en-croachments
of big government and
collectivism. In 1960, he told the
California Mortgage Banker's As-sociation
that there was a "pressing
need for businessmen to get out
and take a more active role in
politics to help preserve our way
of life."
The threat to "our way of life"
was from the left, in Benson's
view. Wondering whether the trend
would be reversed, he wrote in
1964 that "The answer to this
question obviously lies somewhat
with the many intelligent idealists
who have vited . .. under the im-pression
that labor is somehow
better than capital, and that they
were aiding the ordinary man by
voting in a number of mildly col-lectivist
measures.
"If these intellectual idealists be-gin
to learn some of the lessons
learned since World War II by
their European Counterparts—the
lesson of the dangers of collectiv-ism
to political and social liberty
and progress—there may be some
chance of change."
In 1958, representing the Amer-ican
Enterprise Association, Ben-son
went to Washington to oppose
federal aid to education. "Any
national grant," said Benson, "is
a camel's nose in education's tent.
Both history and folklore suggest
that the camel will eventually take
over."
Benson often referred to the
dangers of big government, but he
always made an exception for na-tional
defense. A colonel in Army
Intelligence during World War U,
he joined the Reserves after the
war and again rose to the rank of
colonel. He was instrumental in
beginning ROTC at CMC and its
sister institution, Pomona College.
He served on the Department of
Defense ROTC advisory panel from
its inception in 1950, becoming
chairman in 1958.
by Jan Ullberg
Once again Bethel is being
plagued by the problem of thiev-ery.
Along with perenial locker
room pilfering and geneal mys-terious
disappearances within the
dorms, a number of major items
have been taken. These include
Edgren's stereo and color televi-sion,
ad Bodien's portable televi-sion.
Besides the large thefts, several
small thefts constitute a large a-mount
of money. According to Mr.
Rainbow, the second floor of Ed-gren
alone, between $140 and $160
has been stolen this year. This has
been removed in small amounts.
Most thefts in the girls' dorms, the
coffee shop and cafeteria involve
unattended purses. The New Dorm
has not escaped either. Twice last
week, cars were broken into and
various items were taken.
Attempts at prevention may in-clude
the formation of some type
of security system, primarily for
Edgren. The main responsibility
for prevention, however, must lie
with the members of the commun-ity
in utilizing common sense prac-tices
such as locking rooms and
cars and otherwise protecting per-sonal
belongings.
Friday, October 31, 1969
the CLARION
page 5
by Chuck Myrbo
I saw "A Thousand Clowns" again last summer. I fell in
love with the girl agin, and I was just as impressed with
Murray Burns.
Scene: the abandoned Chinese restaurant under Murray's
apartment in the Bronx.
(Enter Murray and his brother.) Murray is trying to explain
why he walked out on several job interviews that morning.
He speaks: "One day several months ago I was riding the
commuter train home from work, and for a few minutes I
couldn't be sure, without real-y concentrating, what day it was.
It could have been a Monday, or a Tuesday, or a Thursday."
(As he mentions each day there are scenes of a crowded
New York sidewalk.)
He speaks again: "I gotta know what day it is."
For several weeks during June the Midway National Bank
had on its neon bulletin board (which dominates the Snelling-
University intersection) a slogan designed to make Twin Citians
better people:
PRE$TIGE
IS SPELLED WITH
START NOW
One weekend we went to a cabin on the St. Croix to help
the owner clear the brush off his beach. His son Geno, age
five, played at helping us for a while, and then lay down on
a lounge chair, closed his eyes, and said, "This is living."
Murray Burns in the Chinese restaurant made me think
that Geno O'Brien is, at five years old, ready to write material
for The Midway National Bank, and that my twenty years have
brought me to the door of that same Chinese restaurant — with
a bad taste in my mouth from a big bank and a little boy.
`Born to Free' theme of Festival
Pops Concert features Island music
Take the chill out of your bones
and come along with the Bethel
Band to the tropics in the Pacific.
At its 9th annual Pops Concert,
the band is going on a musical
journey to experience the "Magic
of the South Sea Islands." The
concert will be Friday, November
7 at 8:00, in the fieldhouse.
The program has been planned
to provide a night of musical fun
and enjoyment. The auditorium will
be decorated in the South Sea
Island motif, and refreshments will
be on sale.
The concert, sponsored by the
Bethel Women's Auxiliary, presents
the Bethel Concert Band in its
first major performance of the
season, with Julius Whitinger con-ducting
and Gerald Healy narrat-ing.
(CPS)��If "The Selling of the
President 1968" tells us anything,
it tells us that despite the recog-nized
need, at the time, for a poli-tical
leader who could "bring us
together," Richard Nixon was sold
to the American voter through a
campaign which soft-peddled white
racism and took an ignorant public
for granted.
Joe McGinniss should be criticized
only for not letting the American
people in on some of the "behind
scenes" manipulating which result-ed
in election of Richard Nixon as
the 37th President of the United
States while they still could do
something about it. Now, in retro-spect,
the book could easily be re-titled
"Understanding Your Presi-dent"
and promoted as a handbook
for peaple who want to know why
Nixon is Nixon.
"The Selling of the President
1968" states, without reservation,
that the American people were
"sold" a bill of goods during the
Nixon campaign. Surrounded by
an expert team of media minipula-tors,
Richard Nixon won on tech-nique
rather than substance. One
of those aides is quoted candidly,
in a conversation; ". . . The most
powerful man in the world. And
he's (Nixon) going to be elected
on what he didn't say. He's created
an image of himself through corn-ball
sunsets and WASP-y faces and
no one remembers what he says.
Which is gobbledy-gook anyway, of
course."
When a hint of substance did
creep into the Nixon campaign it
was carefully engineered to as-sure
maximum results when the
voters went to the polls — every
detail was examined and evaluated.
A commercial entitled "Vietnam,"
which includes a series of "wound-ed
soldier" pictures backed with
the Nixon "nonposition" on ending
the war, was judged, according to
McGinniss, not acceptable for show-ing
in the South and Southwest
by one of Nixon's media men. "His
reasoning was quite simple:" states
McGinniss. "A picture of a wound-ed
soldier was a reminder that the
people who fight wars get hurt.
This, he (the aid) felt, might cause
resentment among those Americans
who got such a big kick out of
cheering for wars from their Legion
halls and barrooms half a world
away. "So bury the dead in silence
The concert will begin at 8 p.m.
Admission will be $1 for adults,
50 cents for students and 25 cents
for children.
The program is as follows:
Overture, The Beautiful Galatea
von Suppe
March, Old Comrades Teike
Three Seasonal Selections:
Autumn Leaves Marcer-Reed
September Song Weill
Stormy Weather Koehler-Caravas
Comedians Galop
Kab alevsky-Moff it
Marcarena, Spanish March
Monterde-Moffit
Janta A Jag, Swedish Folk Sonk
arr. Maltby
Jazz Waltz Maltby
Two Patriotic Selections:
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Steff e-Mof fit
. . . before you blow North Caro-lina."
The major part of Nixon's tele-vision
campaign was centered a-round
hour long "man in the
arena" shows staged by the Nixon
media troops. Packed with local
members of Republican clubs for
affect, and including questions tos-sed
at the candidate by a panel
of average citizens, the shows were
geared at regional audiences. It was
in this phase of the campaign
that McGinniss found the greatest
evidence of racism. The feeling
among the "engineers" was that a
balanced panel was essential.
"First, this meant a Negro. One
Negro. Not two. Two would be of-fensive
to whites, perhaps to Ne-groes
as well. Two would be trying
too hard. One was necessary and
safe. Fourteen percent of the pop-ulation
applied to a six or seven
member panel, equaled one. Texas
would be tricky, though. Do you
have a Negro and a Mexican-Ameri-can,
or if not, then which?"
McGinniss recalls in the book a
conversation which took place
while the "team" was preparing
for an arena spot that was to be
shot in Philadelphia:
". . . On this one we definitely
need a Negro. I (an aid) don't
think it's necessary to have one in
every group of six people, no mat-ter
what our ethnic experts say,
but in Philadelphia it is. U.S.
News and World Report this week
says that one of every three votes
cast in Philadelphia will be Ne-gro.
And goddammit, we're locked
into the thing, anyway. Once you
start it's hard as hell to stop, be-cause
the press will pick it up
and make a big deal out of why
no Negro all of a sudden.
". . . I (a local production man)
know one in Philadelphia . . . He's
a dynamic type, the head of a
self help organization, that kind of
thing. And he is black.
"What do you mean, he's black?"
"I mean he's dark. It will be
obvious on television that he's not
white."
"You mean we won't have to
put a sign around him that says,
`This is our Negro'?"
"Absolutely not."
"Fine. Call him. Let's get this
thing going."
In the still commercials, which
became a trademark of the cam-paign,
the undertone of racism was
also found. McGinniss reports the
This is My Country Raye-Ades
— Intermission —
Songs of the Islands Morrissey
Holiday Moods:
Bugler's Holiday
Anderson-Edwards
Trumpeters: Fred Brumm,
James Fulton
Mavis McClung
Flute Cocktail Simeone
Flautists: Harriet Anderson,
Gail Klemetti
Marilyn Goff
Holiday for Trombones
Rose-Herfurth
Featured: the trombone section
Beguine for Band Osser
Highlights from South Pacific
Rodgers and Hammerstein-
Lang
reaction of one of the creative
people in the campaign to "politi-cal'
changes in his work.
"They had to change something
in every single spot. The riot
commercial originally ended with a
picture of a Negro boy staring into
the smoldering ruins of what had
been his home. That had to go:
for political reasons, they said.
They (the Nixon advisors) were
afraid they'd be accused of trying
to stir up sympathy for Negroes
who riot. We also had to drop
a shot of a group of Negroes look-ing
at the same kind of thing. It
wasn't bland enough. We had to
use inhabited ruins."
In another still commercial a
young black soldier's face filled
the screen while Nixon was saying
"They provide most of the soldiers
who died to keep us free." The
remark was intended for the "for-gotten
Americans" but the Nixon
manipulators decided that the
black soldier would have to go.
"We can't show a Negro just as
RN's saying 'most of the soldiers
who die to keep us free' . . . That's
been one of their big claims all
along — that the draft is unfair
to them — and this could be inter-preted
in a way that would make us
appear to be taking their side."
Later when the person directing
the still commercials wanted to
do one on Black Capitalism he en-countered
something that no one
on the Nixon staff could under-stand.
He had sent a photographer
out to take some appropriate pic-tures!
"An hour after he started work,
the photographer called Gene
Jones and said when he had start-ed
lining Negroes up on the street
to pose he had been asked by a
few young men what he was doing.
When he told them he was taking
pictures for a Richard Nixon com-mercial,
it was suggested to him
that he remove himself and his
camera from the vicinity. Fast."
The head engineer of the Nixon
media campaign remarked upon
hearing this account, "Gee, isn't
that strange . . . I can't under-stand
an attitude like that."
The "new" Nixon of 1968 is
rapidly reverting to the Nixon we
all knew in 1962. His reluctance
to be the "man in the arena" for
reporters over the past months
indicates that his image-makers
really didn't finish their job.
Their "image" is terribly inse-cure
about his "image."
by Betty Eckstrom
This year's Festival of Christmas
will be unique in many ways. While
it will include the band, a brass
group and the choirs, it will also
feature a handbell choir from the
Park Avenue Covenant Church.
This boys choir is directed by Dr.
Gordon Howell of Bethel's music
departcent.
The handbell choir has been in
existence for three years and at
present is made up of 10 boys in
grades 7-10. Using 37 bells, they
have performed for organizations
as diverse as the St. Paul Schubert
Club and Stillwater Prison. During
the prelude to the Festival, the
handbell choir and band will play
alternately. They will also do some
solo numbers, play with the Male
Chorus and join with the Festival
Choir on "Silent Night."
The theme is also unique in con-ception
and expression. It is "Born
to Free" and the program and
theme are based on the hymn
"Come Thou Long Expected Jesus."
The full theme reads:
Born to free
Born to free the nations
Born to free the nations and reign
Born to free the nations and reign
eternally.
Richard Sieber will conduct the
University of Minnesota Symphony
Oi chestra in its first concert of
the season on Sunday, November
2 at 4 p.m. in Northrop Memorial
Auditorium.
Appearing with the Orchestra as
soloist will be Joseph Roche, Min-nesota
Orchestra violin section
member, who will play Mozart's
Adagio in E, K 261, and a violin
As far as the participation of the
band is concerned, all the numbers
which will be presented are new
for this year. They include "Over-ture
to the Messiah," "There Shall
A Star Come Out Of David," and
"Greensleeves." The brass choir
will be used more as accompni-ment.
According to the information
given by Dr. Robert Berglund, the
College Choir will be presenting a
selection by a contemporary com-poser.
"Christmas Cantata" by
Daniel Pinkham. This will include
a double brass choir.
There will only be three perfor-mances
this year. They will be the
evening of Friday, December 5 at
8 p.m., Saturday, December 6 at
8 p.m. and Sunday afternoon, De-cember
7 at 3 p.m. THERE WILL
BE NO SUNDAY EVENING PRO-GRAM
THIS YEAR.
Tickets will be on sale for $1.00
each in the coffee shop next week,
from 9-12 and 1-4. They will be on
sale in limited quanities so that
there will be only one for each of
you. After next week, the price
will go up to $1.50. Having a ticket
will assure you of a place at the
performance of your choice. Whe-ther
or not you get the chair of
your choice will depend on when
you arrive at the fieldhouse.
concerto, written in 1948 by Dimi-tri
Kabalevski.
The concerto, atypical of the
music created by Soviet composers
during the Stalin regime, owes a
great deal to Mendelssohn and
calls upon both the orchestra and
solo violin to entertain rather than
provide musical profundity.
There is no admission charge for
the concert.
pooh Rebietv
The Selling of the President 1968'
U of M orchestra first concert
highlights Mozart and Kabalevski
page 6
the CLARION
Friday, October 31, 1969
Soccer team rejoices after upsetting the U of M Homecoming Day.
Soccer team upsets U of M,-
Macalester, ties St. John's
213 by Rich Zaderaka
200 This week the Royals face Bemid-
200 ji State in their final hame game
199 of the season. Bemidji has a cur-
188 rent record of 3-3-1, and if Bethel
can stay their running attack, the
outcome will be quite interesting.
Bethel battled fiercely in Satur-day's
homecoming game with
Northwestern of Iowa, but fell
short of victory by the score of
34-12.
587
510
498
86
Tuesday evening's encounter
with the Macalester soccer squads
proved to be like playing two
games. It was scheduled as a Mac
Junior Varsity game which was
obvious early in the contest.
Taking a pass from Tim Larson,
Joel Goff took a long shot from
left wing and put it over the goalies
outstretched hands for a score. A
few minutes later, Lee Granlund
scored. His next bit was a high
centering pass which Pete Wick-lund
headed in. After three goals,
it wasn't time to stop. Joel Goff
and Grandlund added their second
goals of the game.
With a five-zip deficit, Macales-ter
decided that it was time to put
in their varsity team. The rest of
the first half was a standoff, with
Bethel using subs quite freely.
In the second half, Macalester
kept pushing and finally did push
the ball into the net. But Bethel
came back quickly as Pete Wick-lund
used his head again for his
second tally.
Macalester scored a second and
final goal but the Royals kept
pushing for more. On perhaps the
most surprising and accurate kick
of the day, Joel Goff took a corner
kick and curved the ball, untouch-ed,
over the goalie into the far
corner of the net.
The 7-2 victory over Macalester
gave Bethel a 4-3-1 mark with one
game in the season remaining. The
team will take a break this week-end
and finish the season at Ham-line
on November 8.
It was a big week, but it would
have. been a mite better if we
could have defeated St. John's in-stead
of tying 1-1. St. John's was
undefeated, except for one game
against the University of Minne-sota,
and leading the MIAC until
Saturday when they were defeated
by Gustavus. However, there i s
the technical question of whether
the Royals played the JV squad or
the regular varsity. The game was
scheduled with the JV squad but
the St. John's team did not seem
to be aware of the fact.
It didn't take to long for the
Bethel team to realize that if it
was a second team, they were
probably as good as the first. But
they didn't score—at least in the
first half. And Bethel did.
Wally Borner sprung Pete Wick-lund
loose from two Jonny defend-ers
along the touchline. Wicklund
took the ball into the corner and
crossed it across the goal mouth.
The ball rolled menacingly past the
St. John's defense to the other
side where Joel Goff met it and
kicked it home.
In the second half, the Bethel
defense had a momentary lapse
and St. John's managed to sneak
the ball past the screened Jon
Nordstrom.
As neither team could dominate
the play for any length of time,
the contest was the most evenly
played game of the season. The
only problem in the game was a
St. John's fullback who seemed to
find it hard not to trip Dan An-derson.
With the 2-3-1 record, the Roy-als
then faced the University of
Minnesota last Saturday. If honest
opinions mean anything, Bethel
did not expect to win. That is, until
the game started. The University
was undefeated, usually winning
by a six goal margin. They de-feated
St. John's 6-0. So Bethel's
first goal was to not get beat as
bad as the Johnnies.
The University dominated the
the first few minutes of play, but
then, Bethel found that they could
control the ball equally well. The
U team may have been more ef-fective
in their team work but ef-fectiveness
did not mean efficiency.
i he half time came up with no
score.
By this time, the Royal team
knew they could win. The full-backs
from Minnesota kicked the
ball back to their goalie quite
often and this opened up the oppor-tunity
for a Bethel forward to get
to the ball first.
That is what happened in the
early minutes of the second half.
Lee Granlund, who has been put-ting
pressure on the goalie all
eason, reached the ball just as the
goalie did and punched the ball in-to
the corner of the goal. Then,
only a few minutes later, Pete
Wicklund got the ball on passes
from Dan Anderson and Granlund.
Wicklund put enough english on
the ball to pull the Gopher goalie
out of position as the ball rolled
into the goal.
Looking more like the team they
were supposed to be, Minnesota
dominated for the last 25 minutes.
They scored once on a corner kick
which went in off the body of a
wing who had positioned himself
right at the goal post. But thae
was their only score. They missed
an indirect kick in front of the
goal and later, missed a penalty
kick which pitted Jon Nordstom
against one Gopher kicker. The
kick was high and Bethel hung on
for the 2-1 victory against the
University of Minnesota. It was
the soccer upset of the year.
lefiameetata
Bowling Oct. 21
High Games
1.Murray Sitte
2.Harley Hansen
3.Murray Sitte
4.Jim Delich
5.Harley Hansen
High Series
1.Murray Sitte
2.Harley Hansen
3.Kent Erickson
Most Improved
1.Rich Neufeld
2.Murray Sitte
Bowling Oct. 28
High Games
1.Murray Sitte
2.Terry Leafblad
3.Kent Erickson
4.Carl Rippie
5.Murray Sitte
High Series
1.Murray Sitte
2.Terry Leafblad
3.Don White
Most Improved
1.John Zaremba
2.Carl Rippie
Standings
New Dorm I
8
Falcon I
63/4
First Floor I
6
New Dorm II
5
Off Campus 41/2
First Floor II
31/2
Pit
3
Second Old
21/4
Second New
Third New 11/4
Falcon II
0
About the soccer team's upset
of the University of Minnesota .. .
That is something that the team
can be proud of for a long time to
come—like when they have fire-side
chats with the grandchildren.
It's a real feather in their cap;
and a victory like that will throw a
lot of weight when a decision has to
be reached at the bargaining tables
as to whether or not soccer should
be recognized as a major sport
at Bethel College. The game was
also a bright spot in an otherwise-winless
homecoming w e e k e n d.
However, one student commented,
"If Lee Granlund can score a goal
on the University of Minnesota,
then the Gopher's soccer team
can't be very good." Mr. Granlund
was not available for comment.
* * *
And while we're on the subject
of character annihilation, there's
just the slightest whisper of a ru-mor
that certain people (both fac-ulty
and students) are taking some
things that were said in the Clarion
last week personally.
They feel that undue criticism
has been lowered upon the music
department, and that anyone who
would either read or write such
blasphemy is immature and in-articulate.
Well, it seems to me that the
immature label could just as easily
be handed back to them because it
is usually an immature person who
is afraid to take a good hard look
at himself (in this case, at his de-partment).
Now, all of a sudden, it's a crime
to place a fraction of the school in
the public's scrutinizing eye, and
a "lynch mob" is being organized to
bring back proper respect by
stretching the necks of a couple of
editors. Paranoid fear has broken
loose, and I'm wondering what all
the fuss is about. Could somebody
be hiding something?
* * *
The Royals have just scored
their second touchdown, and the
Bethel started another drive la-ter,
but time ran out while Dave
score is 13-12 in favor of North-western
(Iowa). What to do? shall
we kick for the extra point and
try for a tie, or should we run
one across and by getting the two
points take the lead, 14-13?
Well, as those of you who were
at Saturday's Homecoming game
know, Coach Shields sent Cal Har-fst
the kicker, in for the one
point kick attempt which failed.
There were many and varied com-ments
about this situation, and the
sum total of these look like so:
"Why should a team who has only
won one game (and that two years
ago) in three years settle for a tie?
Wasn't the team running the
ball very well, and if so, why not
go for two points and a win? With
all respect for Cal Harfst, the odds
for running the ball over were
much greater than for kicking it
over.
How did the coach know whe-ther
there would be any more
scoring in the game or not?
Wouldn't a tie be something less
than meaningfull? (Doesn't this
show that after three years of
losing, the spirit to win has left
the coaching staff?) . . . and there
were others. Of course, the game
did not finally hinge upon this
situation since Northwestern scored
again, but it does give one cause
to pause . . .
On the other hand, a look at the
team effort during the entire game
is evidence of the fact that they
want to win; and the seeming
tactical error on Coach Shields'
part might be interpreted as his
having confidence that the Royals
would score • again and win. The
possibilities for speculation are
endless.
* * *
Finally, in the Bethel Duel Pis-tol
competition, the earley results
just in show Steve Hanson with
an unbelievable 2-1 victory over
Grassf ace .
Pound wrestled a Raider defen-sive
man for a pass near the 20
yard line.
The Raiders struck quickly in the
second half, scoring on a 72 yard
run around end by punter John
Camp after a fumbled snap from
center.
Bethel matched that touchdown
with a six yard run by Sitte, but
once again the try for the extra
point was unsuccessful.
In the fourth quarter, the Royal
defense lost its aggressiveness.
Northwestern scored three times,
to make the final margin 34-12.
The Royals offensive momentum
was hindered by seven fumbles,
four of which were recovered by
Northwestern. The Raider defen-sive
secondary also picked off two
passes.
Gary Hasselblad, who made
several unassisted, open-field tack-les
and Pete Roemer, who inter-cepted
a pass and recovered a fum-ble,
were standouts on defense.
Perry Johnson and Larry Van Epps
were once again the high men on
the tackle chart.
The Column
by Tim Weko
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53 An exciting kickoff return by
Jeff Knighton to start the game
had an indication of the kind of
battle it was to be. The Royals
took the lead in the second quarter,
scoring on a dive play by Murray
Sitte, from just inches outside the
goal line. The touchdown capped
a 75 yard drive, featuring strong
efforts from Dave Pound, Barry
Anderson, Bob Olsen and Sitte.
Northwestern tied the game how-ever,
on an 82 yard punt return
by Dave Meylink, and took the lead
on the successful conversion at-tempt.
Royals defeated
by Northwestern